[IAEP] wiki wacking

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 23:09:10 EST 2008


I agree with Nate. Redirects should not be a goal, and of course you should
delete them if they break, but until then just leave them - they do more
good than harm (unless people start to see creating redirects as an
important task).

Jameson

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> Wiki maintenance is a nightmare:(  There a million theories on maintaining
> wiki.
> One theory is make it flat and let the user search.
>
> The theory that I am using is to create a simple framework of
> NAME/[home|Getting involved||Todo|....].  We try to keep theses basic
> pages in good shape.  The rest get pruned and merged until they fit
> somewhere.
>
> It is far from perfect.  But it works until we can find someone with
> more time and data management skills:)
>
> david
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Nate Ridderman <nate.ridderman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Why get rid of redirects that are working fine? I see some deletions of
> > these in the logs. Earlier I noticed that [[Sugar]] had been deleted,
> which
> > redirects to [[What is Sugar?]].
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nate
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:53 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Just a heads up that I am doing a bit of wikiwacking
> >>
> >> Sugarcamp* -> MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008*
> >> Regional Sugar Labs -> Local Labs
> >>
> >> General pruning of dead redirects and blank pages.
> >>
> >> david
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