[wiki] Move instead of delete?

[Jonathan Aquilina]

I agree though moving pages to an archive and putting a message on them
saying hey this page is out of date or something of the sort, and putting
them in an archive is the best way to go.


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
<lyz at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2013-12-16 02:41, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
> gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> One idea is to move the deletion candidates to a hidden location as a
> >>> first step. For instance, the page I have picked on lately:
> >>>
> >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
> >>>
> >>> could be moved to
> >>>
> >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DeletedPages/LocaleConf
> >>>
> >>> Then, if someone screams, we would have the option to reverse the
> action.
> >>
> >> The wiki has an option to Redirect pages, so I'm much more inclined to
> >> just edit a "To be deleted" page to put in a redirect in the body,
> >> even if it redirects to the home page of the wiki. This way we
> >> preserve history of the page in case someone needs/wants to resurrect
> >> it some day or needs access to the history for some reason.
> >>
> >> Format:
> >>
> >> #REDIRECT PageName
> >
> > It sounds like that would serve the same purpose in an easier way. Are
> > such redirects permanent HTTP redirects, so the URL of a 'deleted' page
> > is removed from the search engine indexes?
>
> Good question! It's a "301 Moved Permanently" so yes, it should be
> removed from search indexes once the redirect is set up.
>
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