Re: obsolete wiki
On Monday, August 28, 2017 04:55:11 AM Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> rhkramer@gmail.com:
> > Well, even a vague note on the page something like:
> >
> > "Some of this seems to be out of date with the advent of systemd and
> > its adoption in Debian starting with version n.n (<Toy Story name>).
> > If you can contribute anything more to this story, please do."
> >
> > ...would be a start.
>
> That sort of editing, sticking little sentences in without regard to the
> article as a whole, or even the immediately surrounding paragraphs, is
> very prevalent at Wikipedia and is one of the major causes of pages
> degrading over time. It does not work well.
Do you have an alternate suggestion / solution? More specifically, say for
someone not (well-)versed in the subject matter of the page, who comes to the
page, reads it, then attempts to use the information contained in the page but
it doesn't work for him (for reasons which he believes to be related to wrong
/ outdated information on the page, what would you suggest he do?
Nothing? Leave the same pitfall for the next reader, or
At least warn that "there be dragons here"?
Ideally if that person (or some other future reader of the warning about
dragons) learns a little bit more, (ideally) that person would add the
additional information he learns.
But, what would you suggest he do?
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