Quality assurance on the help wiki

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:49 PM, Matthew East wrote:
> ...
> * Paul O'Malley:
> ...
>> Here is a rather simple proposal anything that is in CategoryCleanup
>> for over six months or is three months into the next release's cycle
>> should be put into a  CategoryReview.
> ...
> The answer here must surely be "look at Wikipedia" (cue cheering from
> Corey). That wiki has the following features that our wiki doesn't  
> have right now:
>
>  1. Lots of different types of categories for different problems with
> documents.
>  2. A good way of showing the reliability to the user - a box at the  
> top of the page.
>  3. A means by which the *reason* that the document is in the category
> is recorded for people who later come across the page.
> ...

More germane to Paul's suggestion, Wikipedia's cleanup pages are  
classified by month. "Some editors enjoy fixing the oldest listings  
first, to try to prevent any one problem from lying around Wikipedia  
for too long."  
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: 
Cleanup_process#What_happens_to_older_listings.3F>

I doubt that's necessary for help.ubuntu.com while CategoryCleanup  
contains only 335 items, but then I don't know how fast the category is  
growing/shrinking.

-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/