Hi, there is currently a voting on a Deletion Policy [1] for the OSM wiki. The policy was drafted because we had two incidents last year when someone tried to delete a large number of old and orphaned tagging proposals in draft state. He claimed that these pages might confuse users looking for a tag.
He is not totally wrong with that. These pages can be confusing but there are reasons why other users (including me) claim that most proposals should be kept. In addition to these proposals, there is a much larger number of outdated wiki pages about mapping techniques and OSM-related software. Some can be updated but some can't: Pages about Kosmos document a map renderer whose binary cannot be downloaded any more. Pages about unmaintained/historic software like Traveling Salesman [2] or Namefinder [3] are another example. Deleting these pages is deleting memory and history. Rewriting them in past tense and deleting unimportant content is a lot of work and is on the borderline to vandalism if the page could be updated. However, such pages should be treated different to make readers aware that they hit something old and outdate. That's why I think that there should be a "Archive" namespace on the wiki where such pages can be moved. An alternative to a namespace is a template being added to these pages informing readers that the page exist for archival purposes only. That was done with the wiki page about Namefinder. It has already been marked as "This page describes a historic artifact in the history of OpenStreetMap. It does not reflect the current situation, but instead documents the historical concepts, issues, or ideas." What do you think? Best regards Michael [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap:Deletion_policy [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists)
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