Re: [OpenGuides-Oxford] Scope of the Oxford Guide

On Sat 10 Mar 2012, Kake L Pugh <kake(a)earth.li> wrote: NB I would actually be happier to leave things in their original categories, *iff* we could filter all searches etc on 'Closed' orthogonally to other searches. eg a search for 'Restaurants' should only include open restaurants by default, but it'd be nice to be able to toggle 'show closed stuff as well'. As we currently can't exclude stuff based on its closedness, taking it out of other categories seems the best way to exclude it. (Kake, I think you said we'd also be able to add something to the template and/or CSS to make it really clear that a thing is closed? The openguide has surprisingly good googlejuice & if someone lands on a page out of context I don't want them to be confused by it. I'm assuming we use our judgement & common sense as to how many levels of "old occupant" we put in the summary...? Otherwise eg Wok & Roll would have to say "Chinese restaurant on Woodstock Road, formerly Wok 23, formerly Just Friends, formerly Friends" etc etc. :) Not that I can think of, but can I tack some more stuff on the end? :) A) Another question about scope occurred to me when I realised there were pages like these kicking around in the openguide: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Goths http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Gay Leaving aside the fact that they're wildly out of date, are they within scope? I think there is such a thing as a 'gay pub' (or 'goth pub' for that matter) & it's useful to record that sort of information, but I feel that trying to provide a "guide to gay (or goth) life in Oxford" is very subjective & might be best done elsewhere. Not sure though... There's a few other things I wanted to mention but I'd probably best split them out into other emails to make less cumbersome threads. :-} Jx