Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates

From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Dave Neary" <nearyd(a)gmail.com&gt;, "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt;, "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:03:23 AM Subject: Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates Il 14/03/2014 18:16, Dave Neary ha scritto: > Hi Bob, > > What I'd love to see is a way for people to flag content out-of-date. > "Last updated" doesn't tell you about the feature that is stable and > unchanged since 3.0, nor does it tell you that the feature is in > constant flux and the latest commit just changed everything. > > You need 2 dates for maximum usefulness: "Last updated", and "Flagged > out of date" - if last updated is after the flagged date, something is > wrong (flag should have been removed). If the flag is there then the > page needs updating. Ideally, flagging the page would indicate the > reason for the flag. > > Anyone know how you'd do this in a maintainable way in MediaWiki? Looking at mediawiki the only way I see is flagging all pages not updated in the last month with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Outdated And having people to review them. I'm not sure if a bot can do the work of automatically flagging all pages not updated. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > On 03/13/2014 05:53 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As most are aware, there's a lot of information on the Ovirt Wiki that's >> out of date. In spite of our best efforts, that will probably always be >> true - it's the nature of Wikis. >> >> When I look for information on our Wiki, I never know where the most >> current information is. >> >> I think it would be really helpful if someplace on each Wiki page was a >> useful date to let us know the currency of the info. Probably the most >> useful date is last-modified, although creation date might also be >> useful. Maybe we could even map/display the date to the version number >> of whatever the current stable release was at the time for context >> (sometimes the content of a page calls out a particular version it's >> addressing, but a lot of the time it does not). >> >> Just as an example, I want to find out about migrating my existing >> configuration to self-hosted, using 3.4 RC2. A google search shows the >> following links (in order shown): >> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine >> http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine >> http://www.ovirt.org/Hosted_Engine_Howto >> ... >> >> I'm sure the Features page is ancient at this point. It's hard to tell >> about the 2nd page. >> >> Of course the date a page was last modified doesn't directly indicate >> how correct/current the information is, but there's a correlation. >> Knowing the date would be useful in making a judgment. It might even >> help the task of identifying and cleaning up obsolete pages. >> >> Easy to do? >> >> -Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users