Op 29-06-12 09:41, Piskie schreef:
On 29/06/12 08:07, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote:
As we are struggling with outdated tutorials I have a suggestion:
can we ask authors of tutorials to start with the date or is there a
way of inserting the date automatically?
The following quote from one of the posts illustrates what I mean:
quote
I have to say thanks for the detail you have given in the how to -
it also recognizes that there is a time aspect to most 'HowTos' -
what worked when the author wrote it almost certainly doesn't by the
time I come to read it. And these HowTos are never updated (and
never initially dated either!).
unquote
It would also make sense to add the date of the latest update.
What do you guys think?
Hannie
People are not able to do that to existing threads - editing has been
removed after a week.
As far as 'new' tutorials is concerned - there will come a time when
new tutorials will simply not be moderated by staff for them to appear.
I need some more information on this. When do you call a tutorial
'new'? Most of the tutorials are labeled 'old' (when you hover over
the posting date). The post may be labeled 'old', but that does not
mean the information is outdated. Some of them only need a bit of
updating to be usable for the latest version of Ubuntu. In my view,
transferring this kind of tutorial is useful because anyone can update
the wiki version, whilst updating the forums version can only be done
by the author.
Hannie
I'm not sure we need to worry too much about it.
Threads are dated - when they are originally posted there is a post
date.
Hope that makes sense.
Kev
