{Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On 04/19/2012 12:30 AM, Matthew East wrote:
> On 19 April 2012 07:19, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> <joerlend.schinstad at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>> This page was marked out of date nearly four years ago:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOnMac. Why does it even exist? I assume
>> it's simply because noone has the overview to systematically make sure
>> pages like that is either updated or deleted.
>
> It seems to me that there is a good reason to take a different
> approach to user help than to contributor documentation as regards
> deletion of material.
>
> There are quite a lot of pages on wiki.ubuntu.com that are out of date
> but that have specifically not been deleted because they can have
> historical value. So, looking back over the development of Ubuntu
> historically can sometimes be useful, to remember why something
> happened in a particular way. In my previous email on this thread, I
> dug out a specification created in 2005, for example. It was
> implemented over 5 years ago, and hasn't been touched since then, but
> keeping it around reminds us why we did something and can be used as a
> reference if a similar discussion crops up in the future. (I'm not
> saying this necessarily applies to the page you've referenced above,
> the explanation may be a less sophisticated one, like no one has had
> the chance to merge the information into whatever database is now used
> for such things, or simply that it should be deleted but hasn't yet
> been.)
>
> That's not the case for user help, there is no point keeping around a
> page which can only be applied to a deprecated version of Ubuntu on
> help.ubuntu.com. So evaluating the issue of deleting information using
> a single process isn't helpful.
>

I think it would be very interesting and important for us to try and 
update a good lot of the wiki documentation in Q... In fact Matthew and
  Jeremy if you are going to be at UDS I would love to sit down and 
discuss plans for Q.