On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 3:37 PM Thiemo Kreuz <thiemo.kr...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Personally I'm really not sure if a namespace is the best possible > solution. mediawiki.org is more a continuum of content we collected > over the years. Pages are rarely up to date. It would probably be less > cumbersome to consider the existing main namespace an "archive" and > only mark pages that are known to be up to date. > I'm also on the skeptical side. I think whether something is relevant is rarely clear-cut. I think most pages where the information is in some sense old, and cannot be fixed just by updating the page, fall into one of these categories: - The page documents a thing. The thing still exists, but isn't important anymore. Maybe it's not used by Wikimedia, but used by others. - The page documents a project. The project is finished. The page is not outdated (since the project finished, there is no need to change its description) but not that relevant to present-day capabilities. In both of these situations, it's not that obvious whether the reader would want the page included in the search results or not.
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