[Board] wiki cleanup

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Tue May 28 07:01:12 PDT 2019


At one point I figured out how to mark pages as archived.

Here is an example:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Website_Committee



On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 20:55 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?
>
> All the best,
> Seven
>
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>
>
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Betreff: [Board] wiki cleanup
> Von: Tom Kralidis
> An: osgeo-board List
> Cc:
>
> Hi all: as discussed as today's board meeting, should the wiki cleanup be
> a cleanup or setup a new wiki and only move what's vital/current/etc.?
>
> ..Tom
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