On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:20:24 +0200 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Hi,
On 26.07.2010 17:05, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
can we please add a policy that every migrated page has to have the redirect page for its old name? And on top of that add the redirects for all pages that are already migrated?
You want the old wiki back with no focus on readers, no maintainable structure, no help for contributors, no standards.
We are more than happy to help fixing the external links or fixing weak points in the new wiki.
Simply going back is no option, sorry.
I do not think being dogmatic helps. I agree with both of you - the fact that almost all external links to the openSUSE project are dead by now really hurts the project. On the other hand cluttering up the new wiki with 1000+ redirect pages is no option, too, because it will bring back chaos to the new wiki. But there are other ways to cope with the situation, I suggest the following simple steps: * Set up _Apache redirects_ (301) for the top 500 pages of the old wiki * Adjust the "noarticle" text to something more helpful (http://en.opensuse.org/MediaWiki:Noarticletext). The current text is ---------- There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or edit this page. ----------- Replace it with something like: ----------- The openSUSE wiki has been completely revamped and we are currently in the process of migrating articles from the old wiki instance to the new one. Not all articles will be moved to the same location as in the old wiki instance, so please '''[[Special:Search/all:{{PAGENAME}}|search for this article]]'''. If you cannot find what you are looking for, you may still find it in the old wiki instance at http://old-en.opensuse.org/{{urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}. Please help us moving this page to this new wiki instance if it hasn't been migrated, yet. Last, you may, of course, also [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} edit this page]. ---------- -- Regards Frank Frank Sundermeyer, Technical Writer, Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-7417755; http://www.opensuse.org/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) "Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane" Dogbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org