[mythtv] Wiki maintenance

[Klaas de Waal]

On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 06:16, <f-myth-users at lab.media.mit.edu> wrote:

> I'm unsure what problem exactly would be solved by deleting these pages.
>
> If the problem is "people assuming this advice reflects the current Myth,"
> I would suggest creating a trivial template saying "This page is obsolete"
> and tagging relevant pages that way.  Outright deletion loses a lot of
> history and it's hard to know what "obsolete" advice can lead to insight
> into a current issue---or help support an old system.
>
> (And many of the ones you label as "out of scope" were, and maybe are,
> useful for hardware associated with MythTV, even if they're not about
> precisely and only the MythTV software itself.)
>
> Would it be possible to split the wiki pages into a "current" section and
a "historical" section and move all the old pages to the historical
section? I also think the old pages do have value, if not for the reasons
mentioned above then also to get a bit nostalgic about the past. Some
people actually go to museums and look at old stuff...

Having said that, it would be great if the wiki would be reorganized so
that the main page does point to up-to-date information and that search
actions do give meaningful results.

Klaas.
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