On Wednesday, 10 July 2024 at 15:18, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> Hi! > > There are currently nearly 20000 notes in the documentation, with many > having a very high negative rating. > > For example, there are: > > 1131 notes older than a year, with a rating less than -10 > 2339 notes older than a year, with a rating less than -5 > 5761 notes older than a year, with a rating less than -1 > > The worst offender is: > > https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php#128286 with -159 (not sure > why the website says -153) > https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.attributes.overview.php#126887 with > -104 > > We discussed this during one of our foundation meetings, and we propose: > > - to delete all notes with a rating less than -5 that are older than a > year. > - come up with a plan to crowd source going through the other thousands > of notes to see if they need to be deleted or integrated into the > actual text. Each documentation page now has a link to the XML source > (such as https://github.com/php/doc-en/blob/master/language/attributes.xml) > > Comments? As one of the primary persons that tries to triage new notes, I am strongly in favour. Unrelated, it would be very nice if we could improve the spam filters for user notes somewhat, but this is unrelated to removing unpopular votes. One question, should this possibly become a monthly cron job that checks for the user notes and removes those that fall below the above criterias? Best regards, Gina P. Banyard
