Hi wiki maintainers,
during my short time here I stumbled over two pages, each describing software which seems not to be in use anymore: Pyrender and Tiles@home. Maybe there are more examples and I am asking if there are rules how to proceed with outdated content like this? Because it is hard for beginners and others to use the wiki if it’s cluttered with outdated information, I find it very important to clearly mark the content as outdated and move it to some kind of archive corner.
Here are my questions:
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Should everything be kept for historical / archiving purposes or are ther criteria when content should be deleted?
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Is there already a template, indicating that the page is describing something historical
( The existing template http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:OutOfDate is probably too weak) -
Should we distinguish between A) outdated information which should be updated (e.g. how to install mapnik on debian), and for what the OutOfDate template seems to be for and B) Pages describing something which was important in the past, but is simply not available / acessible / functional anymore and therefore cannot be updated anymore (like Tiles@Home).
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are there guidelines how to proceed with category B) (e.g. move to a specific category, remove incoming links from current pages), etc …
Best regards
Michael