[pmwiki-users] Archiving old/obsolete pages

[kjettil]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:23:54AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:32:58PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
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>>> Recalling another item previously discussed on this list...
>>> what shall we do to "archive" old pages on pmwiki.org,
>>> such as the old Cookbook-V1 pages?
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>> [...]
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>>> Comments or suggestions?
>>>       
>> I'd vote for an archive-attribute of some kind. That way you could also
>> have a note on the page that "this page is archived" or something.
>>     
>
> At some level I almost want it to be just a keyword on the page,
> such as (:archived:), and we ignore pages with that keyword on it.
>   
  Looks fine with me.
  This solution resembles how some IT related standards bodies handle 
"obsolete" standards. E.g ETSI (http://portal.etsi.org) has three 
levels: active, historic(al), withdrawn. See also IETF (www.ietf.org).
  "Historic" means that the standard is no longer (fully) technically 
relevant (and may or may not have been replaced or superceded) but may 
still be of interest, for historical reasons or for existing commercial 
contracts. The standard is identified as "historic" in search results 
but is still available for download.
  "Withdrawn" is a stronger form of "historic" in that the standard no 
longer has to be nationally implemented (in the European system). The 
standard is identified as "withdrawn" in search results but is still 
available for download.
  I believe the above three level classification is often applicable to 
PmWiki pages, at least for CMS implementations.

kjettil