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== "seamonkey" vs "SeaMonkey" ==
Hi Thanks for the info. I didn't know that searches are not case sensitive. [[User:Philip Chee|Philip Chee]] 14:35, 20 December 2008
== working on this KB from a SeaMonkey/Linux angle ==
== working on this KB from a SeaMonkey/Linux angle ==



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"seamonkey" vs "SeaMonkey"

Hi Thanks for the info. I didn't know that searches are not case sensitive. Philip Chee 14:35, 20 December 2008

working on this KB from a SeaMonkey/Linux angle

Hi. I started using SeaMonkey on Linux, and am trying to contribute by writing up solutions to some of the problems I'm encountering.

I think this is the right place to put SeaMonkey docs.

Flagging out-of-date material

A lot of the information for SeaMonkey is old Mozilla Suite stuff, and a lot of the Linux information is very old. I'm pretty sure some of the pages here for Linux are so old to be misleadingly wrong, so what's the best thing to do? I see you took my

this seems wrong

and moved it to a talk page. That's fine, but it is useful to both capture and indicate that a page is wrong or out-of-date without going to the extreme of having lots of user comments and recipes cluttering up wiki articles.

Something like wikipedia:Template:Out of date does this, so I made a simplified version, Template:Out of date and started using it.

Let me know what you think, and how else I can help. Is there somewhere where kb editors "hang out" or discuss things?

-- Skierpage 02:49, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

This knowledge base is a good place for SeaMonkey information. SeaMonkey is considered a Mozilla application even though its being developed by the SeaMonkey community. I'm not the best person to give advice on how to update Mozilla Suite information for SeaMonkey . You might ask Alice Wyman, she has made tons of SeaMonkey edits and is easy to work with.
There hasn't been much hanging out there for a good while, but http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base_changes is the appropriate place to have discussions about proposed changes such as new categories, general policies, or issues that effect more than one or two articles. Its also a good place to ask for advice. I suggest you ask there.
We normally use {{update}} to flag articles that are out of date and {{cleanup}} to flag articles whose style/formatting is in really bad shape. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Rules/Templates
There are a good number of Thunderbird articles that badly need updating for 3.* but I haven't flagged them since I suspect I'd be the only one paying attention to the flags. But perhaps its time for a wholesale review of all articles to flag them as needed. I suggest you raise that as an issue in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base_changes , and suggest what criteria and flags we use. We don't seem to have any way to distinguish between something that is out of date but still useful/accurate for popular versions of an application that have reached end of life (offline folders is still useful for Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 for example) and something that is flat out obsolete. Tanstaafl 03:51, 12 November 2010 (UTC)