| | :::::::: The big advantage of the new approach though is that there is no need for archiving at all. In particular, we could allow old discussions to be continued or just leave them where they are. Is there an important reason why old discussions should be moved to a separate page, as opposed to kept as-is? If we really need a criterium to judge when a discussion is 'old', we can just go by what you said: a discussion is old if it no longer appears on the GP main page. {{User:CodeCat/signature}} 21:58, 2 August 2012 (UTC) | | :::::::: The big advantage of the new approach though is that there is no need for archiving at all. In particular, we could allow old discussions to be continued or just leave them where they are. Is there an important reason why old discussions should be moved to a separate page, as opposed to kept as-is? If we really need a criterium to judge when a discussion is 'old', we can just go by what you said: a discussion is old if it no longer appears on the GP main page. {{User:CodeCat/signature}} 21:58, 2 August 2012 (UTC) |
| | ::::::::: Re: "there is no need for archiving at all": Sure there is. We still need to remove old months from WT:GP. Re: "a discussion is old if it no longer appears on the GP main page": I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to keep track of which months are and are not on the main page. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 22:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC) | | ::::::::: Re: "there is no need for archiving at all": Sure there is. We still need to remove old months from WT:GP. Re: "a discussion is old if it no longer appears on the GP main page": I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to keep track of which months are and are not on the main page. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 22:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC) |
| | + | :::::::::: Even removing old months can be automated now, though! We could use code like this three times to always transclude three months: <code><nowiki>{{Wiktionary:Grease Pit/2012/{{#expr:{{CURRENTMONTH}}-1}}}}</nowiki></code> It would need to be extended a bit so that it handles the wraparound at the beginning of a year, but it's very feasible. :) {{User:CodeCat/signature}} 22:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC) |
