It is now 2004. This wiki could do with some cleaning... - May 30, 2004, it's happening a bit right now...
On and off, there have been suggestions to (re-) organize pages on this wiki, now that there are many thousands of pages, some of it with stale information, some of it with discussions which really no longer add value, plus the ever-recurring issue of indexing these pages further so things are easier to find.
FWIW, I'd be in favor of a relatively drastic sweep and some pretty brutal deletions to go with it:
- point to matching page in http://mini.net/tclrevs/ when deleting large amounts of text - or point out that every page now has a "Revisions" link at the bottom - always sign a deletion with your name, so it is clear who stepped in - add a brief comment explaining what was removed (or moved) and why - avoid meta-debates: if someone puts text back, leave it alone
The wiki's opening page (i.e. the http://wiki.tcl.tk/ default) has had an overhaul and should be much friendlier for first-time visitors now.
-jcw
AMG, regarding the Wiki's front page: Take a close look at the HTML source code for the image map. Notice the doubled commas before the final coordinate pair? They give Mozilla Firefox 3 heartburn. I remember seeing previous versions of Firefox crash on certain links, but the page source could have changed since then. In 3, using tab to navigate through all the links in the page results in the dotted "current link" outlines being garbled polygons, and some random pixels link to random places. These problems are all fixed simply by removing the extra commas. I tested by downloading the HTML, editing it, and loading it into Firefox.
I've written a script which extracts URLs from the snapshot (wikit.tkd) of the Tcler's Wiki. As a preliminary result, I have a whole bunch of Bad URLs on the Wiki. - PS 30May2004