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== I'm thinking maybe that that kind of archiving is too fierce ==

Hi, sure, be bold. Over the years tons of folks have posted lots of basically useless dross to [[Talk:The_OLPC_Wiki]]. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Under the current set-up, to find the older comments and dialogs, one must click "show" in the "there's an archive" box, then click "001". Very, very non-intuitive, which means that the content of the archive will be seen very, very rarely.

Given the specifics of the content, maybe that's not such a bad thing. But I'd recommend setting the default /delay-until-archived/ at three months, not one month, and I'd recommend chopping up the existing archive retroactively in to 3-month chunks. I'm trying to do what I can with the "ask a question" archive, and while what I'm doing isn't ideal either, and isn't automate-able, I think it leaves the underlying content more accessible. ~ [[User:Hexagonal|Hexagonal]] 10:34, 11 December 2007 (EST)

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welcome!

We could use some help welcoming new users here :-) Also, with userboxen. Sj talk 17:49, 6 December 2007 (EST)

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Welcome to the One Laptop per Child wiki. Please make yourself at home; read through the Table of Contents and FAQ, and take a look around. If you need a general wiki-tutorial, Wikieducator has some excellent ones.

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Cheers, Sj

I'm thinking maybe that that kind of archiving is too fierce

Hi, sure, be bold. Over the years tons of folks have posted lots of basically useless dross to Talk:The_OLPC_Wiki. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Under the current set-up, to find the older comments and dialogs, one must click "show" in the "there's an archive" box, then click "001". Very, very non-intuitive, which means that the content of the archive will be seen very, very rarely.

Given the specifics of the content, maybe that's not such a bad thing. But I'd recommend setting the default /delay-until-archived/ at three months, not one month, and I'd recommend chopping up the existing archive retroactively in to 3-month chunks. I'm trying to do what I can with the "ask a question" archive, and while what I'm doing isn't ideal either, and isn't automate-able, I think it leaves the underlying content more accessible. ~ Hexagonal 10:34, 11 December 2007 (EST)