[Users] Request for Wiki - dates

[Brian Proffitt]

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.

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 What I'd love to see is a way for people to flag content out-of-date.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 out of date" - if last updated is after the flagged date, something is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 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Outdated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 out of date.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