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 (OOo) to NOT delete pages from the wiki but mark them as outdated and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 There is a way to redirect outdated pages to the 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
>> 
>> 
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