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Main page: layout and content (1)
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- Introduction text is a main item, it should be placed on top
- "Getting started - site notification" is a news item imo, could be wrong though
- Are we getting featured articles any time soon?
Want to help and now? (1)
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Hi there,
I am a bit confused. I had some time and came by to do some quick fixes I learned. But now I am confused. Can't I just manipulate old wiki data to renew it? So wiki is useable again?
Whos checking my Article I would Inform him about the changes... (because I read something about controll there)
Above all the IRC given on effnet is dead or I am banned for whatever. Never went to that place ;).
Because my time is limited I did some changes to E17. is that oki?
How to handle legacy content? (1)
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I find that, scruffy and disorganised as it was, the old wiki was a mine of information that I badly miss. A fresh start with clear guidelines sounds great - I scribbled some notes at http://scratch.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Capturing_legacy_wiki_content about how we could also pull in some old content pretty easily, and flag it as needing attention, rather than having a very sparse wiki for many months (years?). What do others want?
Thomasn 20:19, 12 November 2008 (GMT)
People are free to import any articles they wish from the old wiki. However these articles must be properly formatted according to the guidelines of the new wiki, and the articles must be manually checked for correctness. Because we want the articles manually checked, the process must be manual.
The archived copies on http://gentoo-wiki.info are unlikely to be going away in the very near future, so pure importing of articles in any way is not wanted. A large number of articles that do not conform to the new guidelines will only confuse and encourage people into not following those guidelines for new articles.
There are already a good number of people populating the wiki with good quality articles, some of them imported, that have been checked for correctness and are free of bad practices. We have no concerns about the wiki getting back to its former glory in a relatively short period.
Automatic importing of old articles was considered when the new wiki was set up, and was rejected by just about everyone involved in the discussions for the problems it would cause.
Assuming that manual restoration is the way ahead:
In order to track progress of restoration, encourage contribution and provide a lookup table, I think we need table which shows the list of old topics with corresponding new topics.
The resulting table could then be:
- manually updated to include links to the new topics.
- analysed by a bot to generate a 'togo/total old pages' thermometer style contribution banner to encourage restoration.
- automatically updated by a bot if pages on this wiki contained a consistently formatted reference to the old site
e.g. Howto's:
Title Old link New link Xen http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Xen Xen Compiz-fusion http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Compiz-fusion Compiz-Fusion See User:Quiettype/Archive index proposal for detail and a proposed method for creation. Discussion should be in one location - here on the Talk:Main Page (admins feel free to suggest alternative).
