Wiki Business

[Nigel Jones]

Eric Christensen wrote:
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> Nigel,
> Is it possible to have the bot add a category (TOO BIG) to all the pages
> that are larger than 32KB?  I like the Archive: and the Meeting:.
I should be able to if it's wanted, but 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Longpages does a good job already.

Most of these pages are exactly what I was talking about in my e-mail 
below...

- Nigel
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> Eric
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> Nigel Jones wrote:
> | Hi all, two items of business that I want to bring up
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> | 1)  We now have a bot on the wiki, appropriately named Wikibot, this 
> can
> | be used for general repetitive tasks such as en-mass addition of
> | categories to pages, and some general clean-up tasks that needs
> | to/should happen once in a while.
> | 2)  Some pages are getting a bit too big, while some are getting 
> useless
> | as time goes on (information for EOL releases.  As such I propose the
> | addition of two new name spaces...
> |
> | a) Archive: (without talk pages)
> | Purpose - To allow archiving wiki pages pertaining to EOL releases,
> | and/or are no longer relevant to the general user
> | Benefits - With proper setup (not searched by default for instance) we
> | can help speed up searches and remove old information from general end
> | users, BUT still be there for those interested.  Pages like the old
> | Extras and FSA pages come to mind immediately.
> |
> | b) Meeting: (with talk pages)
> | Purpose - Allow some separation of end-user based content and
> | board/committee/group meeting logs
> | Benefits - Marginal, similar to the purpose of Archive though,
> | basically, somewhere to keep meeting logs in a place where they can be
> | optionally searched but not by default
> |
> | An alternative to a meeting name space is with proper logging of the
> | meeting channels automatically posting meeting logs on Fedora People 
> (or
> | similar).
> |
> | As for the large pages, well we have pages that are well in excess of
> | the 32KB recommended by the Mediawiki folk, stuff like
> | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristianIseli/PackageReviewStatus
> | (200KB+) would be better suited to Fedora People, but we don't really
> | have any mandate on this. (it'd be nice to have one).
> |
> | Thoughts, Comments, Suggestions?
> |
> | Nigel
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