Agenda talk:2017-06-16

Document retention policy

If this proposal relates to the fact that so many documents are held in Google Docs by WMF employees,

where they vanish either by mistake or by departure of the person, so that years or even months later when we need them they are impossible to find, plus
no real internal knowledge system exists, because Google Docs is not a wiki and there are no links between docs, let alone categories or a global search,

then this is a very welcome item. I was told some years ago that Office IT in theory had a policy about all such documents being transferred in some way, but that doesn't seem to work spectacularly well.

Please consider adopting a more transparent/powerful system, such as maybe ownCloud with Collabora; or empowering the wikis for private drafting/whatever the current use cases are, as suggested e.g. in the idea of consolidating private wikis. --Nemo 19:18, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]