On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:03:17 -0800, Dave Fisher wrote: > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 20, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Keith N. McKenna >> <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Greetings Peter, comments are inline. >>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:32:15 +0100, Peter Kovacs wrote: >>> >>> I change subject since I venture to more generic topic. >>> >>> >>>> On 19.12.20 22:15, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>>> The Policy for the mwiki is and has been since the days of >>>> OpenOffice.org >>>> (OOo) to NOT delete pages from the wiki but mark them as outdated and >>>> be sure there is a link to any replacement document. >>> >> All I am attempting to do is to explain what longstanding policy has >> been for the wiki. If the community wants to change that fine I do >> believe it needs a [Discusstion] thread of it's own rather than just a >> change of topic in a related thread. >> <snip> >>> I suggest we create a archive site (suggestion: >>> archive.openoffice.org) site, and move pages there, that have only >>> historic value. >> >> Again should be in a [Discussion} thread devoted to a policy change. > > I don’t think the effort to move obsolete Wiki pages to static html is > worth it. It’s better to label and point. Perhaps it can be done with a > macro. >
Dave I agree with you. There is a way to redirect outdated pages to the newer documents. I will look into the mediawiki documents for the way to do it. regards Keith > For obsolete html in www.OpenOffice.org we could mark and move to > Www.OpenOffice.org/archive/ rather than maintain yet another repository > and website. > > I think though we can add metadata and a template to quickly mark pages > as obsolete. Redirection or inserted link using additional metadata is > possible. This is a few hours work to setup. I would volunteer to enable > it. > > Regards, > Dave > > >> >>> There is no rush, but cleaning up would help us to refresh our minds. >>> But to forget stuff is important or we run all the time with loads of >>> old baggage around. And we have difficulties to find the right >>> information. >> >> That is where we definitely agree. The mwiki has suffered from neglect >> for far to long and needs an overhaul. Whether that takes place here or >> in a thread of it's own is up to the community. >> >> Regards Keith >> >> >>> just my 2 cents. >>> >>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For >> additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
