On 2010-01-13, Tei wrote: > %% The Death of Wiki %% > > Ultimatelly, al wikis lose the war against entropy and are abandoned. > This will hit all wikipedia wikis, and all based on mediawiki. While > you can't stop that, you can code something so the resulting dead body > of wiki is not pure shit. A possible idea could be to "auto-protect" > pages without edit in N years (4 years), and save id of the "last know > good version", this can be done flagging the pages as "dirty" after a > edit, and flag pages as "clean" wen a logged editor say so. Something > like "Page Milestones". Maybe the "History" view of a page sould list > first the last 10 milestones (newer first), then the "dump" of all > edits. There are probably about more than 10 years to think about this > issue. >
The AbsenteeLandlord extension may fulfil this to a certain extent. [1] [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbsenteeLandlord Robert
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