FYI, I am in discussion with the sysadmin for OSAS to build a script to perhaps stick a universal "Lastupdated..." field on every page, down by the footer.
That should do it. BKP ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbona...@redhat.com> > To: "Brian Proffitt" <bprof...@redhat.com> > Cc: "Dave Neary" <nea...@gmail.com>, "Bob Doolittle" <b...@doolittle.us.com>, > "users" <users@ovirt.org> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:26:19 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates > > Il 17/03/2014 13:15, Brian Proffitt ha scritto: > > I would have no issue manually doing this, but the problem is as soon as I > > do, every page will automatically be updated to today's date with my name > > as soon as I hit "Save." So a bot might be good. Or a template change. > > > > I guess we can just go over http://www.ovirt.org/Special:AncientPages, > contact owner / writer of the page / feature and ask him / her to update to > current status. > > > > BKP > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbona...@redhat.com> > >> To: "Dave Neary" <nea...@gmail.com>, "Bob Doolittle" > >> <b...@doolittle.us.com>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> > >> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:03:23 AM > >> Subject: Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates > >> > >> Il 14/03/2014 18:16, Dave Neary ha scritto: > >>> Hi Bob, > >>> > >>> What I'd love to see is a way for people to flag content out-of-date. > >>> "Last updated" doesn't tell you about the feature that is stable and > >>> unchanged since 3.0, nor does it tell you that the feature is in > >>> constant flux and the latest commit just changed everything. > >>> > >>> You need 2 dates for maximum usefulness: "Last updated", and "Flagged > >>> out of date" - if last updated is after the flagged date, something is > >>> wrong (flag should have been removed). If the flag is there then the > >>> page needs updating. Ideally, flagging the page would indicate the > >>> reason for the flag. > >>> > >>> Anyone know how you'd do this in a maintainable way in MediaWiki? > >> > >> Looking at mediawiki the only way I see is flagging all pages not updated > >> in > >> the last month with > >> > >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Outdated > >> > >> And having people to review them. > >> I'm not sure if a bot can do the work of automatically flagging all pages > >> not > >> updated. > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Dave. > >>> > >>> On 03/13/2014 05:53 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> As most are aware, there's a lot of information on the Ovirt Wiki that's > >>>> out of date. In spite of our best efforts, that will probably always be > >>>> true - it's the nature of Wikis. > >>>> > >>>> When I look for information on our Wiki, I never know where the most > >>>> current information is. > >>>> > >>>> I think it would be really helpful if someplace on each Wiki page was a > >>>> useful date to let us know the currency of the info. Probably the most > >>>> useful date is last-modified, although creation date might also be > >>>> useful. Maybe we could even map/display the date to the version number > >>>> of whatever the current stable release was at the time for context > >>>> (sometimes the content of a page calls out a particular version it's > >>>> addressing, but a lot of the time it does not). > >>>> > >>>> Just as an example, I want to find out about migrating my existing > >>>> configuration to self-hosted, using 3.4 RC2. A google search shows the > >>>> following links (in order shown): > >>>> > >>>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine > >>>> http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine > >>>> http://www.ovirt.org/Hosted_Engine_Howto > >>>> ... > >>>> > >>>> I'm sure the Features page is ancient at this point. It's hard to tell > >>>> about the 2nd page. > >>>> > >>>> Of course the date a page was last modified doesn't directly indicate > >>>> how correct/current the information is, but there's a correlation. > >>>> Knowing the date would be useful in making a judgment. It might even > >>>> help the task of identifying and cleaning up obsolete pages. > >>>> > >>>> Easy to do? > >>>> > >>>> -Bob > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Users mailing list > >>>> Users@ovirt.org > >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Sandro Bonazzola > >> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. > >> See how it works at redhat.com > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Users mailing list > >> Users@ovirt.org > >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >> > > > -- > Sandro Bonazzola > Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. > See how it works at redhat.com > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users