Version 1 of Wiki page cleanup

It is now 2004. This wiki could do with some cleaning...

On and off, there have been suggestions to (re-) organize pages on this wiki, now that there are many thousands of pages, some of it with stale information, some of it with discussions which really no longer add value, plus the ever-recurring issue of indexing these pages further so things are easier to find.

FWIW, I'd be in favor of a relatively drastic sweep and some pretty brutal deletions to go with it:

IMO, people who frequent the wiki often enough to feel confident about recognizing what is old, stale, obsolete should not hesitate to make sweeping changes to pages they come across: a higher signal-to-noise ratio is better than "more pages"...
this might lead to some raised eyebrows, occasionally even bad feelings - but there are a number of ways to deal with that:

     - point to matching page in http://mini.net/tclhist/ when deleting large amounts of text
     - always sign a deletion with your name, so it is clear who stepped in
     - add a brief comment explaining what was removed (or moved) and why
     - avoid meta-debates: if someone puts text back, leave it alone

the above ought to overcome a (pleasant) trait most of us have: reluctance to touch someone else's writing
I will look into making wikit forget about pages which have been made completely empty
it's now easy to change the capitalization of page titles: just let me know, please
perhaps even more important, is the need to create more cross-referencing / link-summary pages

It has been suggested that the wiki's opening page (i.e. the http://wiki.tcl.tk/ default) be turned into a more highly condensed "starting points" page. I'll be happy to do this (and update such a page occasionally) if someone suggests a structure. It would not be world-editable, but on the other hand it could be formatted more densely than what can be done with wiki markup.

-jcw