Re: Wiki: Remove some outdated pages?
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:38:58 -0400, Donald Norwood wrote:
> …add a header stating the article/documentation is no longer relevant
> pointing to a new link as is practice elsewhere, or we come up with an
> 'archived' flag which could equally show the page is not longer relevant.
Hi, all. I'm a new contributor to the Debian Wiki, and relatively new to
MoinMoin, but not new to wikis.
I'd like to help with this, and I think I'm up to the task. Just to
state my priors, I'm very much in the "leave it in the wiki" camp --
with a notice at the top -- unless there's something aggressively bad
about an article that warrants its censorship / removal.
Prior art: Wikipedia has Template:Update[1], a variant of
Template:Ambox[2] that displays a prominent alert banner at the top of
articles containing some outdated content. On an internal wiki at work,
we have an Ambox variant for "dead" and "completed" projects, too, which
(hopefully) make it obvious that potential editors' efforts should be
directed elsewhere.
An admonition[5] looks like it would do 90% of the job, although more
sophisticated alternatives[6,7,8,9] exist. A macro could save a lot of
copy-paste effort, and ensure consistent content and formatting for all
the notional "This Page Is Outdated" alert boxes.
Establishing a new CategoryOutdated page (or similar), following the
existing convention for "category" pages, would be a good place to
include usage instructions for the admonition / macro / whatever, and
list out all these pages which need attention.
Thoughts on this?
--Kevin
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Update#Example
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ambox#type
[3]: https://moinmo.in/MoinMoinVsMediaWiki
[4]: https://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/mediawiki+moinmoin
[5]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnAdmonitions
[6]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros/Include
[7]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros
[8]: https://moinmo.in/HelpOnParsers
[9]: https://moinmo.in/AttentionBoxesForMoin
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