[Users] Request for Wiki - dates

[Sandro Bonazzola]

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 What I'd love to see is a way for people to flag content out-of-date.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 out of date" - if last updated is after the flagged date, something is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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Outdated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 out of date.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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