[wiki] Move instead of delete?

[Peter Matulis]

On 12/17/2013 01:12 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2013-12-16 22:12, cprofitt wrote:
>> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 18:40 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>> On 2013-12-16 15:24, Charles Profitt wrote:
>>>> After doing some work on the wiki I do think there are cases that deletion fits.
>>>>
>>>> 1.  Page was created, but never got past "This page will be for [product x]"
>>>> 2.  Pages that cover project/software that has been discontinued (no longer in development) and was for a version of Ubuntu that was more than one LTS ago.
>>>> 3.  Pages that were setup as redirects three or more years in the past.
>>>
>>> You didn't mention quality, irrespective of applicable version. Was that
>>> intentional?
>>
>> I didn't mention quality because I would think a page with quality
>> issues would likely not be moved, but improved.
> 
> I'm sure that's normally the proper step to take.
> 
> In the first message in this thread I linked to a page that I think
> should be removed for quality reasons. Probably - and hopefully - it's
> an exception. Nevertheless I don't think that our guidelines and
> criteria for maintaining the help wiki should preclude quality issues as
> a possible reason for deletion.

I would say that the general criteria for deletion should be quality.
If the page is good we keep it.  If it is bad:

1. Label it "Quality concerns".  Presumably the people that care will
get notified.
2. If after some agreed-upon time interval (ex: 1 month) if the quality
has not improved the page should be moved to a holding area and change
the label to "Scheduled for removal".
3. If after some agreed-upon time interval (ex: 3 months) delete it.

At the last vUDS [1] there was a agreement that the wiki would be
patrolled more aggressively.  We didn't get to the details of
who/what/when but based on what I'm reading in this thread we are
starting all over again.  Hopefully all this renewed interest will last
until the next vUDS.

~pmatulis

[1]:
http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/meeting/21980/community-1311-docteam-roundtable/