Nicolas Williams writes:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:08:15PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams writes:
> > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:37:25PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > > > (In general, we may need an archive somewhere for long-since-completed
> > > > projects that have materials not archived elsewhere.)
> > >
> > > Deleting content strikes me as the wrong thing to do.
> >
> > Leaving inactive projects around strikes me as wrong as well. :-/
>
> Why would that be wrong if they are clearly marked so? Because it might
> produce lousy web search results? (If so, I'm willing to risk that.)
It's wrong for several reasons:
- It bloats the project list, making things confusing for newcomers
to figure out. Are they supposed to visit every page to figure
out where the good projects are?
- There is no "expired projects" department. If there were, we
could probably toss them there, but that's unlikely to be helpful
for any real person.
- It produces more work for the team that's trying to move us to the
new XWiki infrastructure. I'd like to unburden them as much as
possible. They asked us nicely. Why not just do it?
> Historical information is useful. (Even the IETF, though it hides
> expired I-Ds, nowadays lets you access expired I-Ds by using the diff
> tool.)
Really expired ones disappear. But I think that's getting off-topic.
This isn't like an I-D at all. It's more like a stale working group.
If we had a good place to put the old ones, and if it were useful to
do so, then that'd be a fair thing to do. But we don't have a good
place, and, frankly, the content available is of extremely low value.
There are probably saved tweets with more interesting bits. ;-}
> > For any other archeological expedition, I recommend the WayBackMachine
> > at www.archive.org.
>
> True, that will work. But there's no guarantee that it will be around.
In my estimation, given the content we're talking about (have you
visited these project pages to look them over?), it's good enough.
That's what's at issue here.
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