
28 Sep
2016
28 Sep
'16
11:55 p.m.
On 2016-09-29 04:43, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
Here's a pre-proposal (which could be formalized into a proper proposal) to address the wiki discussion:
- Configure the wiki to display the date of last edit prominently.
- If the date of last edit is sufficiently long ago (1 year?) loudly warn the reader that the content may be out-of-date.
I see at least one major issue with this: Search engines don't care if you write "THIS MAY BE OUT OF DATE" on the page. It's a perennial problem that search engines keep linking out of date material just because such material tends to be linked more (simply because of age). There are few tings as infuriating as going through a bunch of search results and getting pages from 10 years ago. Regards,