On Friday 26 February 2010 03:39:47 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
On 02/26/2010 03:27 AM, Rajko M. wrote:
We should not simply remove all redirects, as they can be included in third party web pages and removing them will create dead links, which is not very popular on the web.
This is something i disagree with. We are starting a new instance of a wiki, even with a new URL. I don't think that we need to be backward-compatible to the mess in en.o.o.
Title change, even adjustment of letter case will break links in mail archives, forums etc, so not that we will mess third party links, but also our links between our services. In case that we will keep wiki.o.o as main documentation wiki server, and leave en.o.o for the rest of collaboration efforts then we will not break anything, but we should leave http://en.opensuse.org/Template:TransferNote on en.o.o, so that people that are following old links can find pages. Although if we decide to go that way template has to be changed.
Redirects also make people lazily use their old cruft on the new instance, i want to avoid this wherever possible.
I talk about wiki redirect pages that can't link between servers, so old cruft will stay where it is now, or it will be updated and transferred manually.
I want the new instance to be as "clean" as possible before we point the general public to it, so we have a chance to keep up with changes they do.
Metoo :)
Henne
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