Wiki pages renaming

[Steven Moix]

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 10:51 -0500, Susan Lauber wrote:
> 2009/2/20 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
>         On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:54:37PM +0100, Steven Moix wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > I started cleaning up and renaming the wiki pages in the
>         Marketing
>         > section, but I have some questions...
>         >
>         > 1) Is someone responsible for updating
>         > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_contributors ?
>         Couldn't we pull
>         > this list automatically from FAS somehow?
>         >
>         > 2) Do we still need this page or can it be archived?
>         > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_rewards
>         >
>         > In a more general sense, how do we manage old pages? I
>         flagged a
>         > duplicate page for deletion, but for other pages, do we
>         create an
>         > "Archive" section and rename the pages to "Marketing archive
>         pagename"?
>         
>         
>         Pages can be moved to the Archive: namespace, but if a page is
>         so old
>         that it's not worth saving, you can put the template {{old}}
>         at the
>         top so it's flagged for later consideration for deletion.
> 
> Just in case Paul's move to Archive: namespace is not clear for
> everyone (it took me a bit as a noob)
> Take the page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_rewards
> Which is known to mediawiki as Marketing rewards
> Use the move tab and make the new name Archive:Marketing rewards
> 
> The guide [1] says to also use an archive category.  Some groups are
> putting these files in a Category:<Group> archive others are not
> bothering.  Archive: is not searched by default but can easily be
> searched if you need to find something.
> If you think you will reference them some, but don't want them in a
> default search for users, you will want a category as a shortcut to
> finding them all at once.  
> 
> Archive and redirection are strongly preferred over deletion [2]
> 
> Thanks for doing this cleanup work!
> 
> -Susan (wiki-gardener)
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_structure
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Deletion
> 
> general: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_policy

You are reading in my mind. I was looking at the wiki structure page and
asking myself the exact question you answered :)

Steven