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

[Steven Peck]

It's a theme issue.  As it stands now to enable it would also put
author names and other information in that space.  I will make a note
for the eventual d.o. redesign but there are a lot of proposed changes
right now and I generally don't like to do to many at once.  Doing to
many changes at once makes it difficult to evaluate effectiveness.

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
> 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 out of date information is going to lull people into a false sense of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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