Re: Culling obsolete pages on wiki.debian.org

2022-08-26 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Borden, > On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:12:06 +0200 (CEST), Borden > said: > A lot of it should be removed since it will just frustrate new users and lead to more traffic on -users as people ask why a squeeze (or earlier) tutorial doesn't work on their system. I'm also a friend of r

Re: Culling obsolete pages on wiki.debian.org

2022-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
[sorry for the long mail, lots of thoughts below] Dan Coleman wrote: > One thing, you will need your email whitelisted by someone on this > list (I don't know who has that authority, but I've seen quick > turnarounds on requests) before you can make an account. I set Borden's email address to ap

Re: Culling obsolete pages on wiki.debian.org

2022-08-19 Thread Borden
19 Aug 2022, 15:58 by autop...@protonmail.com: > Hi Borden, > > I think that updating or removing obsolete information is a great idea, I've > noticed the same issue of badly outdated info on the wiki. > > Personally, I don't believe you'll step on too many toes by updating > information, but de

Re: Culling obsolete pages on wiki.debian.org

2022-08-19 Thread Dan Coleman
Hi Borden, I think that updating or removing obsolete information is a great idea, I've noticed the same issue of badly outdated info on the wiki. Personally, I don't believe you'll step on too many toes by updating information, but deleting is another matter. Maybe prominently flagging inform

Culling obsolete pages on wiki.debian.org

2022-08-19 Thread Borden
This is a follow-up to https://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2021/09/msg00018.html, in which Popescu referred a question about obsolete wiki content to the -www mailing list (which I personally don't think is quite right because the wiki is supposed to be documentation). Agreeing with Kesper (