Yes, it was time.
Keep the archives for 14 months and then purge. If there was good stuff that needed
keeping, those who referred to it regularly will vocally scream loud enough as to wake the
dead. Why 14 months? Some people only refer to some stuff annually, as if they are doing
their annual income tax.
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
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From: Pete Travis <me(a)petetravis.com>
To: For participants of the Documentation Project <docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: RFC: Wiki Gardening... it's time to pull up the weeds
On Jun 20, 2014 9:20 AM, "Eric H. Christensen" <sparks(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:12:19AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:33:36AM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> > > 1. Immediately move the oldest 2460 pages to Archive: and remove their
> > > categories.
> >
> > This makes me a little bit worried. What if there is valuable but basically
> > unchanged information there?
> >
> > I agree that cleanup is necessary, but this seems dangerous.
>
This might sound callous, but can you think of a better way to find out if something is
important than to take it away? If it's that old, and someone wants to use the info,
it probably needs to be updated anyway.
> I seriously doubt that there is any valuable information on the wiki that is that
old. That said, we're moving things to Archive: and not deleting the pages for that
exact reason. It's trivial to move a page back from Archive:.
>
I agree with this categorically, but want to be clear: I fully intend to delete pages
that obviously have no value. Things like unused templates, dead pages with categories
and no content, etc can go away without process or discussion. For example, one of the
top hits on my "special:old pages" was a list of packages maintained by Jose
Matos (he's a good natured sort, so I'll pick on him :) at some indeterminate
point in the past. Nobody cares. We have better places to convey this info now.
We should of course err on the side if caution when considering actual *deletion* - but if
the community is uncomfortable with our judgement on the matter, they should get
involved.
Leaving everything as-is for fear of disappointing a few people isn't an acceptable
strategy anymore.
> The end goal, here, is to reduce the amount of "stuff" on the wiki to
improve the search functionality thus making it easier for the more useful stuff to be
more readily found.
>
> - -- Eric
>
--Pete
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