On Mon, 18 Aug 2014, at 19:03, Jakub Klinkovský
wrote:
We are reconsidering our strategy for archiving
outdated pages on ArchWiki [1],
see [2] for the full discussion if interested. Currently, we don't do any
archiving, we simply delete obsolete pages (after being flagged with
'Template:Out of date' or 'Template:Deletion' for some time of course).
I would like to ask a question regarding one of the suggestions, which is to
make Special:Undelete [3] available for everybody (by assigning
'deletedhistory', 'deletedtext' and 'browsearchive' rights to all
groups). This
is the most simple, but also most controversial way to solve our problem. The
main question is regarding security, because obviously this feature is intended
for administrators only.
A Wikimedia project has a notion of archiving pages. This is done by manually adding an
{{archive}} tag and manually protecting them.
Is there some merit in using a separate namespace for old pages? Can namespace
automatically impose a level of protection?
svetlana
We are considering also using a separate namespace for archiving purpose, but
the main reason why we don't like it is that the content of the archived pages
is not hidden, and thus links from archived pages would pollute other pages'
backlinks and some special pages (e.g. Special:MostLinkedPages).
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Lahwaacz