[Users] Request for Wiki - dates

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 17/03/2014 13:15, Brian Proffitt ha scritto:
> I would have no issue manually doing this, but the problem is as soon as I do, every page will automatically be updated to today's date with my name as soon as I hit "Save." So a bot might be good. Or a template change.
> 

I guess we can just go over http://www.ovirt.org/Special:AncientPages, contact owner / writer of the page / feature and ask him / her to update to
current status.


> BKP
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>> To: "Dave Neary" <nearyd at gmail.com>, "Bob Doolittle" <bob at doolittle.us.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> 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 What I'd love to see is a way for people to flag content out-of-date.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 out of date" - if last updated is after the flagged date, something is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 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Outdated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 out of date.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
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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