On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Susan Lauber
<laubersm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen
<sparks(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 06/15/2010 01:41 PM, David Nalley wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> wrote:
> >> There's quite a few pages that haven't been touched since their
import
> >> from MoinMoin, and I'm thinking about mass-deleting 'em.
> >>
> >> Process for doing so:
> >> 1) write script that finds pages that haven't been touched by anybody
> >> except ImportUser and Admin
> >> 1.5) blog loudly
> >> 2) write [[Template:Quarantine]], which will throw pages that
> >> transclude
> >> it in [[Category:Quarantine]] and explain that the page will be
> >> deleted on or after September 1 if the template is not removed
> >> 3) write script to mass-delete everything in [[Category:Quarantine]] on
> >> September 1
> >>
> >> If somebody wants a page back and nobody did anything about the
> >> template, pages can still be restored by an admin.
> >>
> >> Thoughts? I want to make sure that we have a pretty solid consensus
> >> here before I go forth with this.
> >
> >
> > No opposition here, but would like for a date to be attached to 1,
> > 1.5, and 2 as part of this plan.
>
> I concur with David. Sounds like a good plan.
>
> - --Eric
>
What they said...
Also, I assume that your blog loudly includes the benefits to searching that
this provides. For those that want to keep the pages, you should also
mention in the blogs the option to archive (preserve for history but not
clutter default search) and/or add categories (make easier to find for
current and new users) rather than just removing the template to prevent
deleting. Will template that explains plan also point to wiki page with
these benefits and alternatives and blog links?
And make adding categories/changing namespace the responsibility of
the person who reads the list and sees action that needs to be taken.
(That action should inherently clean the list up once it's re-run on
or about Sep 1. )