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Thanks... ? Having dates on the pages would probably help avoid some of this in the first place. People point to a lot of the PHP comments in their docs as "b

Thanks... ? Having dates on the pages would probably help avoid some of this in the first place. People point to a lot of the PHP comments in their docs as "bad" (and many are) but they're also dated, and you can use a comment date of 2009 when trying to give weight to how relevant/useful something may be. "blank=..." anything is, imo, more confusing than "required=", regardless of what version/age of the docs though.

ubernostrum 8y ago
The issue is: what would you list as the date? Apparently some other people noticed this was on HN, too, so there are minor edits from a few hours ago, but the bulk of the information is still a decade old. Would you stick a date on every paragraph? (personally I'd forgotten that this page even existed)
- mgkimsal 8y ago
  "Created on" and "last modified". I see last modified way at the bottom of a long page in light grey. I did not even notice it was a wiki until others point it out. Biggest text on the page says 'code'. I plead nav-blindness to not seeing 'wiki' in the floating navbar. Perhaps a date on every block section? Or... something that throws a big block at the top if the last edit was more than 2 years ago?
  - ubernostrum 8y ago
    Honestly I'm not convinced it's worth the amount of work involved in doing all this, and the number of places available for people to share tips/tricks/etc. has drastically increased since 2005. So if it were up to me the wiki would either go away, or become read-only with prominent "only for historical purposes, don't use information here" warnings. But I'll think it over.
    - mgkimsal 8y ago
      i was meaning probably more in a general sense, not so much for this particular page. the notice at the top of that specific entry does the trick. a notice at the top of all wikis which aren't intended as the 'official word' indicating such would mitigate a bit of this sort of confusion.

ubernostrum 8y ago

The issue is: what would you list as the date? Apparently some other people noticed this was on HN, too, so there are minor edits from a few hours ago, but the bulk of the information is still a decade old. Would you stick a date on every paragraph? (personally I'd forgotten that this page even existed)

mgkimsal 8y ago
"Created on" and "last modified". I see last modified way at the bottom of a long page in light grey. I did not even notice it was a wiki until others point it out. Biggest text on the page says 'code'. I plead nav-blindness to not seeing 'wiki' in the floating navbar. Perhaps a date on every block section? Or... something that throws a big block at the top if the last edit was more than 2 years ago?
- ubernostrum 8y ago
  Honestly I'm not convinced it's worth the amount of work involved in doing all this, and the number of places available for people to share tips/tricks/etc. has drastically increased since 2005. So if it were up to me the wiki would either go away, or become read-only with prominent "only for historical purposes, don't use information here" warnings. But I'll think it over.
  - mgkimsal 8y ago
    i was meaning probably more in a general sense, not so much for this particular page. the notice at the top of that specific entry does the trick. a notice at the top of all wikis which aren't intended as the 'official word' indicating such would mitigate a bit of this sort of confusion.