Three months have elapsed since the second wave of subdomains creation
by Jens Frank, and little has been done to clean the main site.
Some subdomain admins do not even seem to be aware of the problem.
I do think, however, that we have a problem, when duplicate versions of
a text exist for several months...
In some cases, people imported texts on their subdomains and they did
not blank the original pages, nor did they provide a list of the pages they
imported. In some cases pages have been imported using the import
function, in other cases they were just copy-pasted. Sometimes the
imported pages have been renamed and the redirect deleted, which
makes them difficult to track.
Sometimes people only seem to have imported a fraction of the text
from the main site to their subdomain, whithout explaining the reasons
for their choice. It could be that the texts they left on the main site are
not eligible for wikisource, but how the hell am I supposed to know if I
do not speak the language?
So far I deleted pages on the main site after checking that they were
imported. But a lot of pages remain on the main site, that ough to
belong to subdomains, and I am not able to tell whether they have
been imported or not...
I would like to delete them, because their presence on the main
site is confusing : some occasional contributors do not realize
that a subdomain has been created, and they keep editing pages
on
ws.org, and adding new pages there.
In two words : it is a mess.
In the future, I do not want another subdomain to be created without
there being someone in charge, who can supervise the import and
quickly delete pages from
ws.org.
For the moment, I am asking what to do with the pages on
ws.org
that sould be in a subdomain. Shall we delete them preventively,
keeping in mind that we can restore them later if we realize they
were not duplicates ?
Thomas
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