On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:
The sheer existence of this stale content on the wiki today,
makes me and other people think that the idea of moving
content isn't going to work at all. It's too short sighted,
ill-conceived and badly implemented.
yup, probably won't work well, [GI => GO] but perhaps we can
'enhance' piecewise the wiki without major effort (and I don't
like wikis nor forums, but I grit my teeth) -- Two responses
here:
1. I've always considered wiki like a mass of stringy
spaghetti -- easy enough to boil, but an unappealing snake
nest when it cools; That said, there are some pages which I
watch and edit as the muse strikes, or as I see an EASYFIX
That said, I at least read in my RSS feed the wiki change diff
on each edit, and do spot fixes when I see stuff that needs
it. The hope I have is that perhaps the google crawl of it
makes it of some use on a fulltext search limited to
site:centos.org
2. I think there is a maintainer oriented report of broken
links, and aged (oldest to newer) list of the time of last
page edit --- perhaps a protocol of working that list,
and adding a visible:
last checked: 081112 herrold
at the bottom (to get it to the head of that list), would
'turn over the soil' on the whole wiki sequentially, and let
us 'weed' it collaboratively in small stages -- doable.
Ralph: any pointers?
There are things that the wiki is good for like howto's and
info on specific issues are really well done, but some
fringe content where individual authors were driving stuff
forward, and no longer are - seems to have just falled
wayside.
and pruning or splitting off the dead or unmaintainable
content (that d*mn ever changing jpackage Java section comes
to mind) off into an 'unmaintained' branch, or killing it
outright and fixing resultant broken links, is about all we
can do there.
-- Russ herrold
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