Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (177 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/09/2010 12:15 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2010-08-09 11:58, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> > On 08/09/2010 02:01 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> e problem is the same as for the English wiki.
> > > There are tons of links everywhere pointing to pages in the wiki, but which 
> > > have been renamed, and
> > > thus are broken. Even searches in google sometimes point to pages that 
> > > exist no more.
> >
> > And that, as we have explained a million times, is okay. We launched a
> > completely new website which is not backward-compatible. When we find
> > links in our own infrastructure we fix them. When we find _VERY_
> > prominent links we create redirects. Everything else has to fade away or
> > will update itself automatically (search engines).
>
> And many have explained as many times that this is wrong.

Yes, everybody is entitled to his opinion. Those who do decide :)

> > > So, in the language wikis there are links to the English wiki, which are 
> > > broken as well.
> > > Repairing all those is daunting.
> >
> > True, that's why we need to point to old-en until we updated the
> > language wikis. Good point, i have added my comments to bnc#629405
>
> ok.
>
> But don't forget to point in the new English wiki to the equivalent 
> translated (old) pages. Links
> that existed in the old wiki.

New wikis will always just point to their equivalent new wiki in other
languages :)

> > > And nobody knows what to do.
> >
> > For now there should be
>
> I'm more or less lost here. Doesn't matter, I will not do that job. I will 
> just try to keep the
> content of the few places I edit more or less updted, even if there are no 
> links to them or have
> been lost in the process. I can't do more.

And that's okay :)

Henne

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