On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Kubke <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my random page visit through WE I often come across pages that have
> little or no content and in which the last edit has happened a long time
> ago. I could not find an 'orphan' category.
> One option would be to delete those pages.
> A second option could be to create an 'orphan' (or similar) category that
> could group the pages so that people looking for things to contribute could
> go to that aggregation and find topics that have not been fully developed.
> This last option could be nicely tied with the L4C workshops for example.
> Any suggestions as to how to deal with these?
> Cheers
> Fabiana Kubke
>
> Fabiana,
Yes, I've noticed these "abandoned" pages in my wanderings. At some point I
came across a template and category for marking pages as stubs. A stub is a
page that is in need of more work to be considered useable as a content
resource. I think this function serves the need.
To mark a page as a stub, just add the code {{stub}} somewhere on the page.
A stub header will be added to the page, and the page will be automatically
categorised into Category:Stub <http://wikieducator.org/Category:Stub>.
There are already quite a number of pages in the stub category.
I agree that these stub pages offer many good content areas which new users
could work on as they develop their skills.
All of that said, at times I find pages that I think should be considered
for deletion. Anyone can mark such a page for consideration. Just add the
code {{delete}} to the page and if you are not the sole author or it's
someone else's work altogether, add a statement directly to the page with
your reasons for suggesting the page for deletion. If the page has multiple
authors, I think we should make an effort to contact each author to get
consensus on the deletion. Marking the page with the delete template will
add the page to Category:Deletion
requested<http://wikieducator.org/Category:Deletion_requested>.
Administrators authorized to delete pages monitor this category and delete
the pages as appropriate.
OK, so these are my suggestions. A next step might be to collect the various
notes about this process into a new help page (at least I don't think
there's one that already exists).
Warm regards,
Alison
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