Wiki page audit - possible page deleteion

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Wed Apr 15 14:57:46 UTC 2020


On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:08:05PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On a Wednesday in 2020, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Ideally I would like to decomission the current wiki.libvirt.org
> > site. It is based on mediawiki running on openshift and has myself
> > as a single point of failure.
> > 
> > GitLab provides a wiki, but I don't think we need to use that
> > either, as I think that it is desirable to bring the content into
> > our main website.
> > 
> > By putting an "edit this page" link on each page of our website,
> > users can quickly see what source to change. There is still the
> > burden of submitting a merge request & having review feedback,
> > but I think we could mitigate this by having the reviewer
> > actually make the changes they want directly, avoiding the
> > tedious back & forth updates in easy cases. GitLab allows
> > this if the person opening the merge request selects the
> > option to allow maintainers to edit code.
> > 
> > In any case, to remove wiki.libvirt.org we need to do something
> > with its current content. The majority of content was first
> > created 5-10 years ago, only a handful of pages get frequent
> > edits right now:
> > 
> >   https://wiki.libvirt.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500&days=90
> > 
> > 
> > Looking at the pages I see some key groups, so I'll talk
> > about them separately...
> > 
> 
> Is this a list of the recently changed pages? Or all of them?

This was all the pages shown under

https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Special:AllPages

but I've already deleted a bunch of the  irrelevant cruft mentioned
in this original mail

> > Various misc pages that I've not spent too much time looking at each
> > page, but as a rough approx I'd keep the following list, pulling it
> > into the main website
> > 
> >    BiteSizedTasks
> 
> >    DebugLogs
> >    Debugging
> 
> I'll put these two into a kbase article.

BTW, we already have this page:

   https://libvirt.org/logging.html

so at least some content from the wiki might fold into that page.



Regards,
Daniel
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