[doc] Breaking the wiki

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:57:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:02:25AM -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:
> > > It seems alot of work that is going into the wiki, such as renaming
> > > pages to conform to new standards we wish to have is breaking the old
> > > links.  We really need to make sure we are not causing more harm by
> > > changing the name, than we are doing good by changing the name.  The
> > > idea of place holders was brought up, saying we link the old page
> > > straight to the new one.  I like this idea and say we go for it, but do
> > > we keep a ongoing link from the old page?  I think this is something for
> > > discussion.
> > 
> > This is something that has always bothered me about moin...it doesn't seem
> > like a complex feature to implement a "rename page" function which would
> > automatically switch all of the links.
> 
> The links I was thinking of were from things like the mailing list
> archives, actually.

Well, it looks like we'll be moving this stuff into Plone in the near
future, which makes things much easier.  Plone documents can have aliases
and such which make it easy to change their names without breaking links.

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 - mdz