RFC: Wiki Gardening... it's time to pull up the weeds

[Pete Travis]

On 06/20/2014 08:33 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> Last night Zach (zoglesby), Pete (randomuser), Ian Weller (ianweller),
> and I had a discussion regarding the current state of our
> documentation.  A tangent discussion was generated and a proposal was
> brought that will hopefully remove cruft from the Fedora wiki.
>
> Fun Facts:
> 1. There are 13990 wiki pages.
> 2. The oldest 10000 pages haven't been touched in two years.
> 3. The oldest 2460 pages haven't been touched since we imported the
> data from the MoinMoin wiki back in 2008.
>
> Proposal:
> 1. Immediately move the oldest 2460 pages to Archive: and remove their
> categories.
> 2. Mark the remaining 10000 "old" pages as {{old}}.
> 3. Revisit the "old" pages in two months and any still marked as "old"
> be stripped of their categories and moved to Archive:.
>
> -- Eric
>
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> Eric "Sparks" Christensen
> Fedora Project
>
> sparks at fedoraproject.org - sparks at redhat.com
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I agree with this proposal :)

I'd also like to look into the API a little more, and see what we
maintenance we can do with wiki bots. Something like:
- If a page hasn't been viewed or edited in x months, flag it for review
* Unless the page is flagged as static content, then flag for review
less often.
- if a page hasn't been edited in 2x months, mail people that have
edited it and ask if the page is worth keeping around.
- If a page that a mail has been sent for hasn't been changed in x
weeks, archive it
- Automatically delete any pages with no content that are older than n weeks

- Identify high view traffic pages and mark them to be reviewed by docs;
if the page is useful documentation, put it in a guide or the cookbook,
drop a link in the page instead of the content, and get the content into tx.


-- 
-- Pete Travis
 - Fedora Docs Project Leader
 - 'randomuser' on freenode
 - immanetize at fedoraproject.org


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