On 2010-01-13, Tei wrote:
%% The Death of Wiki %%
Ultimatelly, al wikis lose the war against entropy and are abandoned. This will hit all wikipedia wikis, and all based on mediawiki. While you can't stop that, you can code something so the resulting dead body of wiki is not pure shit. A possible idea could be to "auto-protect" pages without edit in N years (4 years), and save id of the "last know good version", this can be done flagging the pages as "dirty" after a edit, and flag pages as "clean" wen a logged editor say so. Something like "Page Milestones". Maybe the "History" view of a page sould list first the last 10 milestones (newer first), then the "dump" of all edits. There are probably about more than 10 years to think about this issue.
The AbsenteeLandlord extension may fulfil this to a certain extent. [1]
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbsenteeLandlord
Robert