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On 29/08/13 05:42, Ryan Lane wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com
> <mailto:bob.ball at citrix.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com
>     <mailto:berrange at redhat.com>]
>     > Sent: 28 August 2013 10:27
>     >
>     > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:06:01PM +1000, Tom Fifield wrote:
>     > > TL;DR - Obsolete page on the wiki? Consider moving it to the
>     > > Obsolete namespace.
>     > > Alternative proposals and thoughts very welcome!!
>     >
>     > So I think a better option is to define an "Obsolete Content"
>     > template which would add a prominent banner across the top of the
>     > page which warns users that the content is out of date and asks
>     > for contributions to update it.
> 
>     I agree that using a template in this way would be better than
>     moving pages to the Obsolete namespace.
> 
>     I do think that we should have some automatic process to mark pages
>     as possibly obsolete as well.
> 
>     Perhaps we could make better use of the categories?  My thoughts are
>     having a category for pages that will automatically be marked as
>     obsolete, a category for potentially obsolete pages, one for
>     obsolete and another for pages which will never be obsolete, or
>     pages kept in that state for the archive (e.g. blueprints).
> 
>     Each page could also have a designated owner who can be contacted
>     when a page is being considered for moving to the obsolete category
>     - even if it's just a comment at the bottom of the page, or another
>     category - to give the human review element.
> 
>     I'm not very familiar with mediawiki - but perhaps templates would
>     be better used for all of the above.
> 
> 
> One plus of using an Obsolete namespace is that it removes the pages
> from the default search results when searching in the wiki.
> 
> Maybe a template that applies a "To be obsoleted' category + a bot that
> moves pages from the "To be obsoleted" category into the Obsolete
> namespace after a period of time would be better? I have a feeling that
> documents being moved into the Obsolete category are docs that will
> never be updated, though. My original recommendation was for them to
> just be deleted, so I think the current approach is more lenient. I
> guess I'm just a deletionist :).

Yes - the removal from search was a big positive for me. There were some
very old install instructions in there with generic enough page titles
that there were still people trying to use them.

I also feel that the kind of pages that get obsoleted are the ones that
will never get updated.

You can find some examples at the below link:

https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=110