Deprecated pages on the wiki

[Thomas Canniot]

Le Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:56:24 -0500,
"Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 06:39:09PM +0100, Thomas Canniot wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > When we used MoinMoin wiki, 3 years ago,the French Translation Team
> > was strong enough to handle the translation of the wiki pages of
> > the Fedora websites. When we moved to MediaWiki, the pages were
> > kept and ported... and are still available today [1].
> > 
> > However, the French translation team cannot endorse this kind of
> > effort today. The pages are then left untouched and deprecated
> > since some years now. Their contents are obsolete and convey wrong
> > information about how to get involved into the Fedora Project and
> > other general information about it.
> > 
> > Other reasons makes me feel these pages should be deleted :
> > - a translation process is not acheived in MediaWiki the way is was
> >   acheived with MoinMoin
> > - the FR translation team is not able to handle such a task
> > - the page are referenced in google, and mislead our future
> >   contributors.
> > 
> > I am aware that I have a part of responsability in this problem
> > today and I deeply apologize for not having been able to maintain
> > such a task. I'm also aware that this failure will make someone
> > loose time deleting the pages... unless I'm given the right to
> > delete pages for some hours to achieve the task.
> > 
> > How should we process then ?
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> You can move any such page into the Archive using the 'move' tab,
> renaming it with the word "Archive:" in front of the page name.  So
> for instance "My_page" would become "Archive:My_page".  You may also
> add the text '{{old}}' to the top of each page that needs to be
> deprecated.  This will place them in a category for eventual deletion.
> 
> If you're interested in helping with this type of deletion
> maintenance, you can sign up on the wiki maintainers mailing list for
> assistance:
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki
> 


Thanks a lot for the help I'll do it asap :)

I signed up the wiki maintainers mailing list as well.

Thomas