Proposal: Move FrontPage to Welcome
Henrik Nilsen Omma
henrik at ubuntu.com
Thu May 11 20:14:46 UTC 2006
Matthew East wrote:
> Hi t,
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 03:44 +0000, t u wrote:
>
>> I would like to propose moving the FrontPage wiki page to Welcome wiki
>> page. The current condition of the wiki.ubuntu.com is a little
>> unprofessional (or maybe.. rather not very "familiar"). Users would
>> expect to see a "Welcome" title instead of a "FrontPage" title, which
>> makes the wiki look like it is not finished yet. This has been bugging
>> me for a while now.
>>
>> I know that "Welcome" isn't a good wiki page name. So I already
>> created the wiki.ubuntu.com/Welcome and propose to redirect FrontPage
>> to Welcome. This way, the rest of the wiki will not need an update,
>> and users can still give "FrontPage" as the link to the main page.
>>
> [...]
>
> The idea is fine, and I think it is true to say that we've wanted to do
> this for a long time. However, we just have never got round to doing it.
> Using a redirect on FrontPage is not a good way of doing it however, the
> wiki configuration needs to be amended to get this right.
>
So I think the right way to do it is to change the wiki config and ALSO
put a redirect in 'FrontPage', that way old links don't get broken.
I also prefer 'Home'. I'll look at that now.
- Henrik
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