[pmwiki-users] Best practices for "archives"

[Russ]

Hi Chris,

Would a "virtual archives" work?  Perhaps have [[!Current]] ,
[[!Maintained]], and [[!Archived]] categories, and include / exclude
pages from searches and pagelists based on the page category.  You could
even use conditional (:if:) statements to change the category from
[[!Current]] to [[!Archived]] past a certain date when you create the
page, eliminating the need to go back and re-assign the page later.

The reason I suggest categories is that you don't need to move or rename
any resources ... if someone bookmarks a page, it will still be at that
location if they come back weeks or months later (that also makes it
search-engine friendly).  You might also want to look at the
WPCategories recipe (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WPCategories)
if you want to easily display the applicable category at the bottom of
the page.

Russ

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Chris Lott wrote:
> As we envision our new institutional wiki site I am concerned about
> how to effectively "archive" within the wiki. A lot of our material is
> created for presentations and training events and has a limited truly
> active lifespan... but we want to keep it available (and searchable)
> long past that time.
>
> I thought about an "archive" group, but since most of our materials
> are already in groups and can't be nested...
>
> Some pages can be refactored and pulled out to become "maintained"
> resources, but not most...
>
> Do other people face this dilemma? And what do you do?
>
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