Wiki-specific policy

From: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Wiki-specific policy
Date: 2008-11-04 01:27:02
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64.0811031846030.528@westnet.com
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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.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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