I am definitely on the side of archiving rather
than deleting. Some of my research interests
involve looking at past documentation. Retrieving
outdated documentation is okay, as long as it is
clear immediately that it is indeed outdated. We
can also enable searching from within WMF
webspace to exclude outdated documentation. There
are many ways to accomplish these goals: adding
"Archived" to the title, making a new namespace, using categories, etc.
Paul
Paul J. Weiss
PhD student, Information science
University of Washington
At 2015-10-15 10:48 am, you wrote:
>I've always thought that blanking the page and
replacing it with a template which says it's
historical and links to the historical
version of the page would be a good solution
that balances preserving history with deemphasizing outdated information.
This would make info show up in searches still,
which we definitely do not want. Seems that deleting is a better option.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Neil P. Quinn
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
I've always thought that blanking the page and
replacing it with a template which says it's
historical and links to the historical version
of the page would be a good solution that
balances preserving history with deemphasizing outdated information.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Andreescu
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a documentation cleanup day coming up soon, and we've just got
> delete permissions so we can actually clean.
Please don't delete old content, mark it as {{historical}} or
{{outdated}} and archive it instead.
I'm all for following the norm here, but
wouldn't that mean it still shows up in
searches? That's what I'm trying to avoid, minimizing the confusion.Â
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