Maintenance Idea - Wiki

[Charles Davis]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 09:41 +0200, Leo Iannacone wrote:
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> Jonathan Jesse ha scritto:
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> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:03 PM, <indigo196 at rochester.rr.com
> > <mailto:indigo196 at rochester.rr.com>> wrote:
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> >     Hello all:
> >
> >     My first poke in the list...
> >
> >     I would like to discuss the need to make the wiki more easily
> >     maintainable.
> >
> >     When I was first starting to use Ubuntu (and Linux seriously) I
> >     had some issues with finding documentation that was out of date
> >     due to it being for an old version.
> >
> >     I would like to suggest adding a category for the version of
> >     Ubuntu that the documentation was created under or last reviewed
> >     for. This would have the double benefit of making it clear to
> >     users what version it was written for and making it easier for
> >     maintainers to find pages that need 'checking' and/or revision.
> >
> >     Potentially this can be done by using the version name
> >     "CategoryHardyHeron" or potentially it could be done by using a
> >     more generic "CategoryLTS", "CategoryCurrentVersion",
> >     "CategoryARchivedVersions"... or some other idea I have not
> >     thought of.
> >
> >     Other than that - hello to everyone and please let me know how I
> >     can assist.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     PrivateVoid
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> > I would vote for that idea as well.  There should be a way at look
> > then at all CategoryArchivedVersions and removing pages that deal w/
> > Breezy, etc
> In italian wiki we have developed a new macro to include in the page
> "the supported releases".
> An example is here -> http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Programmazione/Java
> (It's under TableOfContets (modified ;), you could read "Versioni
> supportate" (tran. "Supported releases")
> It's a nice way to control deprecated pages.
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> If you want, I can give the code of macro.
> 
> Leo.
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Very nice. I'd like to see something like that implemented for our Wiki.


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