[documentation] 'Last updated' information on handbook pages?

[Shai Gluskin]

I agree with Nat and Meitar,

That time stamp is a data point. From reading the NYTimes to Wikipedia to
Drupal.org a reader is obligated to assess the value/limitations of any
particular piece of information. I think it is paternalistic to keep
information out of folks hands because of a possibility that some folks
might misinterpret the meaning of it.

Reasons not to show information:
* causes usability problems by mucking up presentation or page clarity.
* takes up valuable system resources like running an "expensive" query.

As long as it passes these tests, I'd be in favor.

Shai

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Nathaniel Catchpole <catch56 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with Meitar. I don't think having recently updated timestamps on
> out of date information is going to lull people into a false sense of
> security - at least not compared to now, where they appear pretty much
> timeless except for the version taxonomy.
>
> This came up specifically in the case of module comparisons - if I see that
> a page comparing modules hasn't been updated for 6 months, then hopefully
> it'll indicate that things might have changed since then and encourage me to
> update it. At the moment, I have no idea either way unless I check the
> revisions tab (and I rarely do this unless I'm about to archive a page or
> make a big edit, hardly ever if I'm actually reading documentation).
>
> Also, if I see a page that hasn't been updated since 2006 or something,
> then it's an extra bit of encouragement to jump in and fix it.
>
> Nat
>
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