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=== Updates and follow up === | === Updates and follow up === | ||
:*<br> | :*During an 11 October 2011 meeting of the Wiki Community and Wiki Engineers, a committee was appointed and charged to address issues related to stubs in the wiki. Our report follows; we invite comment and discussion on this forum. Items are numbered to facilitate responses to specific points<br>.<br>1. We need stubs. Without the stub on the page the page does not exist. This also makes the article searchable, and easier to find. | ||
:*2. Changing the name “stub” is not a good idea; this would cause many dead links and things that would need to be corrected. | |||
:*3. Develop a system to track all stub pages, so that we can maintain them. Place them on the maintenance page sorted by date of last edit.<br>a. Develop a template to put on a stub page that indicates it will be removed by _____ [insert a date] if content is not added. This would be accompanied by an email to the last contributor to the page of the pending action.<br>b. At present there is a sentence on the FamilySearch Wiki:Stub page (https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Stub) that seems to capture stubs. It states “Find a listing of them in the Category:Stubs.” This page is inadequate, however; it returned only five stubs (on 12 October 2011). See Category:Help stubs https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Help_stubs. We know there are many more than five.<br><br>4. Refine the criteria for removing stubs. The present criteria just defines the challenge:<br>FamilySearch Wiki:stub (https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Stub)<br>“There is no set size at which an article stops being a stub. While very short articles are likely to be stubs, there are some subjects about which there is very little that can be written. Conversely, there are subjects about which a lot could be written - their articles may still be stubs even if they are a few paragraphs long. As such, it is impossible to state whether an article is a stub based solely on its length, and any decision on the article has to come down to an editor's best judgement “<br>We have place this on the Forums<br> | |||
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