Re: Wiki-specific policy

On Monday 03 November 2008 20:27:02 Greg Smith wrote:
> Today someone mentioned in #postgresql that some pages got lost in the
> techdocs->wiki transition, and it turned out what actually happened is
> that there were no actual links to them anywhere.  Come to find they were
> all listed at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:Lonelypages I made
> one pass through trying to prune the number of orphaned pages by attaching
> them somewhere useful or otherwise dealing with them.  Found a couple of
> useful pages that way so far, most of what's left are actually linked to
> by http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Category:Software_Ports
>
> As part of that, I found a unreferenced page somebody had created as a
> scratchpad, something that's really better done as part of someone's user
> page.  I cleaned that up by moving their content to their user page,
> notifying them with a suggestion to utilize that area in the future rather
> than creating new trivial pages, then deleted the original page; orphan
> count dropped by one.  I paused briefly to consider there's no official
> policy suggesting anything like that though.  The Wikpedia policy I
> realized I've internalized is from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion ,
> specifically general - #2 "Test pages".
>
> There's supposed to be wiki-specific policies at
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=PostgreSQL_Wiki:Policy which is
> currently blank.  I was tempted to just redirect that to
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Policies but realized that's
> short-sighted:  there really should be a real page dedicated to
> maintainence of the wiki proper there instead eventually.
>

It's a wiki, feel free to put in the first draft :-)

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