X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/b6a4da775945856b07fdc8f1330a86f67e329ac9..5b152d2fefeac63008b4bfd381fe599b853c035a:/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn index ccb7634e5..6bab6ef27 100644 --- a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ cleared to be entirely empty (or only have whitespace)? Discuss. --[[Joey]] I'd say so; yes. A method of deleting pages via the web would be great; I can't think of a use of keeping blank pages around. What about vandalism -- if someone blanks a page and deletes it and someone else wishes to restore -it; or is undoing edits via the web a bigger issue? -- [[JonDowland]] +it; or is undoing edits via the web a bigger issue? -- [[users/Jon]] Of course there's already a way to delete pages (remove plugin). So the question is really: @@ -24,3 +24,10 @@ the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly) time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]] + +On EmacsWiki, a page is marked for deletion when it contains just the DeletedPage +keyword and if there were no page editions since XX days. Here, I use pages that +can be empty everyday and filled all day long. It does not make sense to me to +delete these pages :). --[[xma]] + +I was not aware of [[plugins/remove]]. I don't think another method is necessary -- [[users/Jon]]