[WikiEN-l] Proposed: Topical archiving of talk

[David Gerard]

On 22/02/07, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On every page, that sounds like an awful lot of work; on the very busy
> pages, that sounds like it could be useful. I'd agree with the ordered
> archives being the "archives of record," more or less (less refactoring =
> more authentic, if perhaps a little less useful).


The main problem with any form of archiving is that it's the busiest
pages that need it, and the busiest pages tend to be controversial. So
picking how to archive them is not so much a technical matter as
politics. Date-based archiving is generally tolerable to most.


- d.