[ckan-discuss] Purging revisions?

Wed Apr 7 18:48:25 BST 2010

David - I was thinking of Wikipedia in this too. They have a process 
where you can flag a post as being redundant or non-compliant (for 
various reasons) and it notifies people that the article is in question. 
Some people like to troll around for just articles like that so they can 
see if they can improve them or delete them. I had something like that 
in mind... not everyone feels empowered to alter a record and so just 
want to be able to flag a problem... it isn't clear to me that a casual 
user would think to use tags to do that, they might need a more obvious 
prompt.

On 10-04-07 10:35 AM, David Read wrote:
> David,
>
> Yes, sounds good, but I think we only want to have to call on
> administrators for deletions. For any other changes, we need to
> encourage users to do the edit themselves. This user-empowerment
> drives Wikipedia, OSM etc.
>
> So if a user spots a broken link, he can either fix it himself, or if
> he is unsure, he could tag it something like 'broken-link'.
>
> If a package has a duplicate then he can do a manual merge and mark
> one for deletion with the methods we're establishing in the ticket.
>
> David
>
> On 7 April 2010 18:29, David Eaves<david at eaves.ca>  wrote:
>    
>> David&  Jonathan,
>>
>> Just want to throw my support behind Jonathan's suggestion that we allow
>> users to flag a package for deletion. I actually think we want to allow
>> users to flag packages for some other reasons too... say for broken link or
>> to mark as a duplicate.
>>
>> (Indeed, having the capacity to scan CKAN for duplicate resource or website
>> URL's would probably be very, very helpful, although this probably just
>> requires someone to write a simple script).
>>
>> I get how allowing anyone to delete a package creates a whole lot more work
>> (needing to see "deleted packages") and so agree with you David, that it it
>> probably not worth it at the moment...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> dave
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10-04-07 10:16 AM, David Read wrote:
>>      
>>> Jonathan,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this. Yes, we're hesitant about allowing general users
>>> delete powers - not just that they may delete perfectly good packages,
>>> but we'd have to write some UI to view 'deleted' packages and
>>> 'undelete' them. We have the compromise that administrators simply
>>> view them all have this additional field in the package edit form.
>>>
>>> I'm keen to for general users to nominate articles for deletion as you
>>> suggest. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to ask users to email
>>> the admins for the instance? I'll create a ticket for this:
>>> http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/trac/ticket/283 so feel free to
>>> continue the discussion here or on the ticket.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, I've purged this particular spam package.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 7 April 2010 15:03, Jonathan Gray<jonathan.gray at okfn.org>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> This looks like spam:
>>>>
>>>>   http://www.ckan.net/package/tnc
>>>>
>>>> Is there any ways CKAN users can purge a package/revision? Or perhaps
>>>> flag for deletion?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>>
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