On 30/07/10 09:11, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-07-30 07:11, Rajko M. wrote:
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 05:21:21 Marcus Rueckert wrote: ...
you make things really complicated.
If I would be decision maker then all would be a lot lesser complicated, but as I'm not, and trying to make everybody happy leads to complicated solutions.
no deleting redirects is not an option. you cant changed printed material ever. also you cant change all blog posts and stuff. or internal wikis of companies e.g. using the OBS. so the link has to stay forever.
For one, everything get obsolete one day.
Another golden rule of the web is that published links have to be checked for validity once in a while. No one can expect that links are really forever, specially those in the old wiki that are all but designed for longevity.
Yesterday night, a user reported in the forum a problem with zypper, which told to report somewhere with instructions somewhere-bis. The second link did not exist, had been removed with a link to the new one. The new one did not exist either. I had to search for a while before finding the real one for him.
Now, choose: you either update the zypper stack with a security update, or you (plural you) fix the wiki link, at least till 11.1, 11.2, and 11.3 end of life.
I'm sure there are more pieces of software in oS with links in the code to the wiki.
I agree that this seems to be general problem. As an other example: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2010-07/msg00384.html And a *working* link to the legal terms (including the terms that the hole copyright or at least the right to use and modify any written thing would not stay the contributor's) *'might'* be important... But to the example problem: If you do not to make a page with #REDIRECT [[name of the targeted article in the oS-wiki]] yourself - would you (Carlos E. R. or just an other with that knowledge of the meant links and discussion on the forums) contribute the dead link and the meant article so others might do it? Regards pistazienfresser -- - openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org