User Experience/SOP/Wiki/Cleanup

Maintainer

• Leonard Mada
• and someone from Sun Microsystems !!!

History

• version 0.1 / 2008 - Inital Draft

Objective

Remove deprecated content from the Wiki to improve readability and ease maintenance of the wiki. Correct double-redirects.

Procedure

Detect Obsolete Pages

• Persons: anyone

• Obsolete Pages:
  • pages whose content has become irrelevant
  • redirect-pages if no user is expected to use the former page name
  • other pages that are deemed obsolete
• redirects: should be corrected to point directly to the correct; need no user confirmation

• Actions:
  • report pages to page-owner or creator
  • report pages to appropriate mailing list
  • report intention to delete on the former's page Discussion-page

Mark For Deletion

• appointed person:
  • marks page for speedy deletion
  • reports the page as per Detect Obsolete Pages section, if not previously reported

Page Deletion

• wiki-maintainer deletes page if any of the following conditions is satisfied:
  • page-owner confirms obsolete nature of the page
  • project-owner confirms obsolete nature of the page and neither the page-owner, nor anyone on the mailing lists offer a suitable explanation to keep the page
  • there is no response in 3 months and there are no obvious reasons to keep the page

Correcting Double-Redirects

• redirects:
  • can be corrected immediately without any prior notification
  • if initial page name is unlikely to be used by any user, then the redirect-page should be handled as per Mark For Deletion-section

Users

• any wiki-reader can report an obsolete page
• page-owner and project-lead should confirm or negate the obsolete nature of the page
• wiki-maintainer will delete the page

-- Discoleo 21:31, 24 February 2008 (CET)