Doesn't a whole new world deserve a whole new wiki? You could keep the old one for historical purposes. Maybe import some pages to the new wiki where it makes sense.
>________________________________ > From: Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 7:45 AM >Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Reorganizing your wiki when the whole world >changes...? > > >Imagine the impact on Wikipedia if, say, the periodic table of the elements >from chemistry was completely revamped, changing the name of every element, >the groupings of elements, etc. It's easy enough to fix the Periodic >Table<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table> article, but what about the >thousands of other >articles<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=hydrogen&fulltext=Search> > that include the word "hydrogen"? They are all instantly wrong. Fortunately >this doesn't happen often! > >However, this kind of situation happens all the time in companies that have >internal MediaWiki sites. The company reorganizes, changing the names and >missions of all the teams, repartitioning into groups that don't map >one-to-one with the old teams. Suddenly, in one second, thousands of wiki >articles are wrong. > >I'm wondering if anybody has been successful at getting a company wiki to >survive this kind of change...? > >My company has a very successful wiki with 200,000 topics, and these company >reorganizations are extremely destructive to the wiki. Thousands of article >titles contain the names of teams. Tens of thousands of articles include team >names in their content. Every article that doesn't get fixed is an error, >waiting to confuse a new employee. > >Automatic search-and-replace does not really help except in the simplest cases. > >We've mostly relied on recategorization and mass article renaming, both using >Pywikibot. But this does not fix the article content. In an ideal world, each >page would have an "owner" who would take the initiative to fix the content; >but in companies, everybody is busy with other work, and pages don't really >have owners... some were even written by ex-employees. > >Any suggestions appreciated! >DanB > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >To unsubscribe, go to: >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
