breaking up long pages

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)  
A lot of really great work has been done to the Grub2 page over the last copuple of weeks.  Some of the contents has been moved to sub-pages and significantly tidied up.  Is that enough to stop it getting the tag for being too long?
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Sun, 13/5/12, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com> wrote:


From: Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: breaking up long pages
To: "Tom Davies" <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "Ubuntu Doc" <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>, lubuntu-wiki-docs at lists.launchpad.net
Date: Sunday, 13 May, 2012, 10:46


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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