I'm sure others have better thoughts than I have on the proposed solution, but I agree this is a problem; I would really appreciate better ways to sort away things which are not only outdated but only historically relevant because it's about a tool or extension which is no longer installed or maintained – as opposed to something still in use, but where the information was last updated three years ago.
Best, *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:12 PM Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm proposing we introduce a new namespace on mediawiki.org. > > The namespace name will be Archived (numerical id to be determined) and > its purpose will be to hold pages like "Subversion" that have the template > "historical" applied to it. These pages would move info that namespace and > you would get Archived:Subversion, Archived:Manual:Small padlock icon, > Archived:Help:Extension:WebFonts etc. > > This will give us a place outside of the main content namespaces to keep > information about configurations, manuals, extensions and skins that we > want to keep, but where it will no longer pollute our set of currently > relevant information. The namespace will not be part of > $wgContentNamespaces and $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault namespaces. > Hopefully this will allow for a more searchable and better functioning > mediawiki.org when it comes to documentation for new users, while > preserving history in the spirit of wikis. > > I've discussed this with various people at various points in time who all > seemed to think this was a good idea, but we've never really had an open > discussion about it that could result into action. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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