breaking up long pages

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Tom,

we also have eager people biting at our ankles. The idea of Wiki is that it
is 'alive', but currently the best advice appears to keep it in a induced
coma until we find out the results of what wiki V2 will look, feel and be
edited by. I'll be a good boi and bite my tongue as to what I feel about
putting our Wiki into a coma on the grounds that the world may be different
when it wakes up.

Regards,

Phill.

On 13 May 2012 10:11, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> Someone doing excellent work at breaking-up a very long page has asked my
> advice on a few issues.  It's just occurred to me that people or other
> pages might have deep-links into specific parts of the page.  By deep-links
> i mean links that have a # in order to reach a specific part of the page, eg
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Displays
>
> Would it be best to keep the old titles that were on the long page and
> then just put a new deep-link there to the new place?  eg
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Set_menu_font_and_highlight_colors
> to link to the relevant section on the new sub-page
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Displays#Setting_Menu_Font_Colors
>
> After the page has been broken-up is it possible to find all the other
> pages that might have deep-links into the original long page?  Are there
> other complications and if so are there good ways around those problems?
>
> Am i being too pedantic and harsh?  After all, if deep-links break the
> person does get to the right page but is shown the beginning of the page
> where the Table-of-Contents is rather than being given exactly what they
> expect.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
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