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outdated pages on ArchWiki [1],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'Template:Out of date' or 'Template:Deletion' for some time of course).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