Suggestion

[Phill Whiteside]

This is an amazing thread! Just as I had my break from things to re-charge
my batteries, we are now discussing how best to keep the wiki areas updated
and to ensure that new comers can be sure that the page that they land on
is relevant to their release. I've always been opposed to deleting old wiki
pages for older releases, as if some one is happy with, say, 9.04, who are
we to remove information that works for them. The 'tags' can look after
this issue, it is still a work in progress in my mind as to how best to go
about this. Throwing ideas around and reaching a consensus will be good,
not only for us as a team, but both for people who rely upon the pages and
also for new comers to let them 'cut their teeth'. A true win-win scenario
:)

Regards,

Phill.


On 13 September 2013 21:18, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Yes, everyone sees tags.
>
> I think both ideas have merit.  I kinda wish the tag said
> *Unsupported Version:* This article appears to apply to unsupported
> versions of Ubuntu.
> or something else less definite that the way it is set at the moment.
>
> If something definitely only applies to unsupported versions then it
> should definitely be removed but i think there are a lot of pages where
> it's unclear or where just a bit of updating or pruning large chunks out
> might fix the page.  However, even so, i think it would be good to use the
> tag as it is to see if it helps shake things up a bit.
>
> I also quite like Jonathon's idea of listing some of the versions the page
> is known to work with.  I think there are dangers with it but even so it's
> worth considering imo.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>
> *Cc:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>; Ubuntu Doc <
> ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, 13 September 2013, 21:05
> *Subject:* Re: Suggestion
>
> will tags show up to those that visit the page? like me a reader and user
> of the wiki would it show the tags?
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> having just had a new tag [1] added maybe we can use these?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
> 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag
>
>
> On 13 September 2013 20:06, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> maybe so but it will give users a heads up hey maybe the doc team should
> be informed this page doesnt support the release that i am on
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> I think we need to be wary of that sort of thing.  It can make a page
> appear outdated even if it's contents are still valid and just means people
> have to take care to edit every single page even if it's only for that 1
> thing.
>
> It has always been my worry that it's the only reason some of our current
> pages have a bad reputation for being old.  The advice might still be solid
> but the version numbers are so out of date that the page is in danger of
> getting deleted and the wisdom or cunning lost.  Since the move to Unity
> that has been a lot less of an issue and i am beginning to agree it would
> be good to just wipe out a large number of pages, or at least stop them
> from being publicly accessible, but probably just deleting would be best.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
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>  *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, 13 September 2013, 19:12
> *Subject:* Suggestion
>
> Is it possible to put on the page a list of versions that the steps to
> setup something applies to that way if and when somethign changes then we
> know that hey these documents need to be updated to include said stuff for
> this particular version.
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