Tagging wiki pages with Ubuntu version numbers

Matthew East matt at mdke.org
Tue Dec 10 14:03:07 UTC 2013


On 6 December 2013 20:52, Kevin Godby <godbyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's been a lot of discussion lately about out-of-date wiki pages
> and how few of them are actually tagged as being out of date.
>
> One potential solution to this would be to have tags for each Ubuntu
> version (e.g., 13.04, 13.10, 14.04). When you create or edit a wiki
> page, tag it with the Ubuntu version that it's written for (usually
> the current/latest version). Then we could easily find out of date
> pages—those pages tagged with earlier Ubuntu versions—so they may be
> updated, redirected, etc.

Just by way of some extra historical background, there have been some
past attempts to implement version tagging for wiki pages, you might
be interested in reusing some of the code or ideas.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpWikiQualityAssurance (item 2)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2011-May/015874.html

Matt



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