On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:38:58 -0400, Donald Norwood wrote: > …add a header stating the article/documentation is no longer relevant > pointing to a new link as is practice elsewhere, or we come up with an > 'archived' flag which could equally show the page is not longer relevant.
Hi, all. I'm a new contributor to the Debian Wiki, and relatively new to MoinMoin, but not new to wikis. I'd like to help with this, and I think I'm up to the task. Just to state my priors, I'm very much in the "leave it in the wiki" camp -- with a notice at the top -- unless there's something aggressively bad about an article that warrants its censorship / removal. Prior art: Wikipedia has Template:Update[1], a variant of Template:Ambox[2] that displays a prominent alert banner at the top of articles containing some outdated content. On an internal wiki at work, we have an Ambox variant for "dead" and "completed" projects, too, which (hopefully) make it obvious that potential editors' efforts should be directed elsewhere. An admonition[5] looks like it would do 90% of the job, although more sophisticated alternatives[6,7,8,9] exist. A macro could save a lot of copy-paste effort, and ensure consistent content and formatting for all the notional "This Page Is Outdated" alert boxes. Establishing a new CategoryOutdated page (or similar), following the existing convention for "category" pages, would be a good place to include usage instructions for the admonition / macro / whatever, and list out all these pages which need attention. Thoughts on this? --Kevin [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Update#Example [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ambox#type [3]: https://moinmo.in/MoinMoinVsMediaWiki [4]: https://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/mediawiki+moinmoin [5]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnAdmonitions [6]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros/Include [7]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros [8]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnParsers [9]: https://moinmo.in/AttentionBoxesForMoin
