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Compost Heap
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This wiki contains text deleted in other pages, if there is a chance that it may still have some use.

Typical situations:

  • You're pruning or Master Editing a wiki that contains discussions, although it is not a ...Discussion wiki. Often, these discussions end in a clarification which you could easily include in the body text. Out of respect you do not want to simply throw away all the contributions. After all, they may contain an aspect that you overlooked. In most of these cases there is no corresponding Discussion wiki, where you could move it.
  • You wrote something stupid. Someone caught you. You feel your text and the reply only distract from the topic. But the reply may contain points that the writer would want to keep. You may want to add:
 Moved because XYZ convinced me, and I changed the text accordingly.

In these cases, please proceed as follows:

  1. Cut these texts from the original page.
  2. Replace them with a reference such as ''(Moved "Beginning of Text ..." to [Compost Heap])''
  3. Paste text at the bottom of this page, preceded with a link to the source and expiration date (suggested: 1 month).
  4. If there is expired text on this page: Delete it and
  5. delete the expired references to [Compost Heap] in the original pages.

Q&A

Q: We already keep the deleted files in the page history. Why do we need yet another page?

A: It is not so easy to retrieve part of a previous page from the history (especially if you want to keep formatting) and it may be rude to simply delete possibly valuable contributions.

Q: Why not use a Discussion page? for this?

A: If this discussion merits to be kept for posteriority - by all means, put it there. But if you want it to be deleted after a grace period, put it on this page.

Sprouting

When you keep a compost heap, it sometimes happens that seeds sprout from the material you deposited. If you see this happening here, take them out carefully and plant them on a page where they can grow, before they get deleted on this page.


[92] Page Categorization

expires 2004-10-25 (From KGSWishlist/ Discussion, deleted because it now has been implemented, using sub pages.)

mdh: Would it be possible to break this up page into multiple pages, each based on a Major catagory?-

DrStraw: This page is getting way too long. Can some proficient wiki editor split it into multiple pages and use this one as nothing more than an index of links to the various subpages? Please indicate your agreement or disagreement with this proposal with the usual + or -

If this medium is getting inconvenient, why doesn't someone set up a proper bug database for KGS instead? (see KGSBugs

wms: Please don't convert to a real bug database. I have set up bugzilla before. It is great for tracking things that must be solved, but most of the comments here are not bugs, they are feature requests, so I'd either have to mark "no" to all that I don't plan on doing or else let it grow into an infinite pile that would be hard to search and impossible to browse.

RussellKhan: I've decided to attempt to split this page up. I'll leave this section here for now, and only remove sections from the page as I put up the page that replaces them.

RussellKhan: OK, I've moved the first section, and I think I got all the links right. That was the hardest part, so if anyone decides to join in on this little project be careful about all the little links that refer back and forth between sections. Also, I (re)discovered that it's much easier to do the edits on big pages like this in a real text editor rather than in the edit box in your browser window. If anyone spots anything I missed please either let me know (leaving a note on my homepage should be effective) or fix it for me. Thanks! I'll be moving the rest of the sections in the next day or few.

RussellKhan: All sections but this one (which I figure should stay on this page at least for now) have been moved. Let me know if anything is screwy as a result of the moves. I also made a Path out of the Wishlist pages, which I hope will help people who want to read through all of it. Thanks to those who removed stuff I seem to have pasted in twice. Sorry about that. Thanks also to whoever prettied up the section title/headlines - I meant to get back to that today.




This is a copy of the living page "Compost Heap" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.