[Board] wiki cleanup

Tom Kralidis tomkralidis at gmail.com
Tue May 28 04:02:20 PDT 2019


On Tue, 28 May 2019, Markus Neteler wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 11:24:01 +0200
> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
> To: "Seven of Nine (aka Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us>
> Cc: Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>,
>     osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Board] wiki cleanup
> 
> Hi all,
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 8:55 PM Seven of Nine (aka Arnulf)
> <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>> great idea to give the Wiki some love and way overdue. But broken URLs are a sign of careless web people. Lost history is too. MediWiki goes out of its ways not to break URLs and keep histories intact and they are actually doing a great job. So I see no sense in ditching all and copying "vital/current". Nobody can tell what is still alive or needed. Is old < vital (asks an oldtimer... :-)
>>
>> So /me is very much in favor of keeping all and deleting and merging bluntly. Those who really care or look for something can follow the bread crumb to the start of the Wiki. How cool is that? Imagine a history student in 2056 tracing back to a few folks sitting in Chicago and debating the need of free or open in a name. Would be a pity to loose that, wouldn't it?
>
> My plea as a former board member: Please do not trash our history.
>
> Cleanup is fine and needed but keeping important (historical) pages alive.
>
> Best
> Markus

Thanks for the valuable feedback. Would cleaning up the wiki in effect be
losing history as well?  Nonetheless, fully agree not to lose history.

..Tom



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