On 7/25/2010 4:36 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hello, > > I have a proposal to improve PDL's documentation. > > Get rid of the following wiki pages:
No. Please do not do that. Just make a new top level page for the updated installation information, modify the links pointing to the old page to point to the new one *and* put a link to the old pages on the new page as (deprecated references) until the new instructions are in place and correct. Thanks, Chris > * Everything under "Installing PDL the quick and easy way" > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_the_quick_and_easy_way > > These pages are all outdated. The wiki doesn't even show any history > for any of them. No history at all. They are all years out of date - > nobody is updating them. Look, I just learned 5 minutes ago that Matt > actually has a Mac OS binary for PDL 2.4.6, uploaded to SourceForge > only two months ago, yet the wiki is pointing to a version from > another website that is 3 years old. > > The only installation page that is updated is the "manual install" > page. It was last updated 6 months ago. So we'll keep that one. All > other pages should be nuked. In turn, they should be replaced by a > single install page with updated and correct information, located on > the main site. Something like this: > > http://pdl.perl.org/future/?page=install > > Except that this page doesn't yet have all the instructions. But what > I want to do is put the instructions, except for "manual install", > directly on this page. Then I want to get rid of all the never-updated > pages which will do nothing but lead users astray, toward poor > information and old releases of PDL. > > Does anyone know how I can delete a page on Mediawiki? > > Daniel. > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3027 - Release Date: 07/25/10 > 02:36:00 > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
