Cleanup time limit
Should there be a time limit on questions? Some of the questions (including mine about the episode transcipt permission contact) have pretty much just sat there. I don't want to go archiving questions willy-nilly, but after a certain amount of time with the question remaining unanswered, and especially reflecting on the fact that subsequent questions ARE answered, might we decide on a point at which we are willing to pull the plug on them? I'm just trying to keep this page under the 32KB mark, and that'll get harder to do if we have an "unanswered questions graveyard" taking up space.
Also, I left the episode name question up, as it appears to be getting periodic updates. That's awesome!--Steelviper 14:11, 25 August 2006 (CDT)
- I would say that we should leave the unanswered questions up for a period of 1 week, then archive them. As for questions that have been answered, I would venture that after a week of inactivity we should archie it. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate 14:24, 25 August 2006 (CDT)
Archives... for the archives?
Let me first say that this is awesome! I am thrilled at the amount that official sources (particularly Brad Thompson) have contributed. That being said, the archive headers are starting to take over the page, and they're not going to get any smaller. As we continue to accumulate questions and responses, we'll need a way to organize them so that people can find what they're looking for (without cluttering up the place). Also, just wading through the question headers is going to start to get challenging, so we may want to consider different ways of indexing the information (by topic, answered vs unanswered, reverse alphabetical by third letter of the last post, whatever). Not necessarily storing them that way (redundancy can be bad/dangerous), but providing some sort alternate index or searches. This isn't really an emergency, but just a trend that I had noticed and I wanted to see if others agreed that this may become a problem as well as solicit ideas for potential solutions. --Steelviper 08:05, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- Can we possible add the show/hide modification to the wiki. That way people only need see the archive headers if they want to "expand" them? --Mercifull (Talk/Contribs) 08:11, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- We could also do a subpage for just the archive. For instance, we could have a box on top of the page that says "Click here for a comprehensive list of archived communiques." that links to Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques/Archive. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate 09:28, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- The Index button on the little doodad functions similarly, though perhaps it should also be linked in text underneath the doodad? --Steelviper 09:31, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- Doodad? --Shane (T - C - E) 11:56, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- Doodad... ArchiveTOC... sound similar, right? --Steelviper 12:00, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- Doodad? --Shane (T - C - E) 11:56, 6 October 2006 (CDT)
- The Index button on the little doodad functions similarly, though perhaps it should also be linked in text underneath the doodad? --Steelviper 09:31, 6 October 2006 (CDT)