According to an article by Tateru Nino, a number of pages were removed from the Second Life Wiki.
... nearly 80 currently employed and ex-Linden Lab staff were mass-deleted ... along with related meeting transcripts, modification histories, revisions and the like. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the deletions. Some are still there while some are gone, and whether the staff-member in question is currently employed or not doesn’t seem to be a major determining factor.
Tateru contacted Linden Lab, and got the following statement:
After a careful review of the content, we’ve removed a number of pages from the Second Life wiki as part of an ongoing clean-up effort, designed to make that resource more current, more helpful, and less confusing than it has been in the past. Where appropriate, we’ll move valuable content (relevant tutorials, for example) to other pages.
Checking the comments following Tateru’s article and those in Daniel Voyager’s blog, a few people were in favor of Linden Lab’s actions, “The wiki is huge and very poorly linked. For a wiki it is hard to use. There are a massive number of pages with no incoming link. If I did not have a reader tracking the changes to the wiki there are tons of stuff I would never see. Unless I bookmark it, I can’t return to it.” The majority, however, were unhappy, “What?? They got rid of Blue Linden’s page. I want to smack them.” “Ya’ gotta love bureaucratic jargon. ‘..careful review ..’, ... ‘Where appropriate ..’. All good words and phrases for avoiding actually explaining anything.” A few wondered why the Lab didn’t archive the pages instead, even if it would make them less accessible, one wondering if the newer Lindens had no appreciation for “the investment people have made in SL for years and the value and affection people have for the history and culture that has developed."
A list of what’s been deleted can be found Here.
Sources: Dwell on It, Daniel Voyager’s Blog
Bixyl Shuftan
Well, to be fair, the wiki IS borderline useless and cleaning up did need doing. What good is it, for example, to have a list of 8 spanish speaking lindens to speak with when a) no Linden speaks with residents anymore and b) none of them on the list have jobs at LL anymore? No wiki clean up is pretty, but like all cleaning up of clutter it has to be done occasionally. I neither like nor dislike it; it's just a housecleaning chore and just like cleaning out the closet, we can't be sentimental about what we are tossing or we'll never toss anything.
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