[wiki] Move instead of delete?

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 16/12/13 15:06, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> On 12/16/2013 04:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>> Would it be possible to create a list of the pages that were handled
>> this way and the date that they were set as redirects?  Maybe a space
>> for people to add comments?  I think it would take quite a long time
>> to really notice if such pages really hadn't caused any problems and
>> thus really were suitable for deletion.  Perhaps more like a couple of
>> years rather than 6 months!  Having the list and showing the dates
>> would make that easier to track.
> Can a tag be created for redirects?  Or a category?

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but having poked the wiki for 
some time now, I've found out that a page with a redirect can also have 
a tag, category or other content, and this content will be searchable.

I guess the best policy for deleted pages would be to do a standard 
redirection to "you hit a deleted page..." page, with a tag or category 
that indicates the reason why the page was deleted.

We could set a, say 5-10 sec pause before redirection, and in that time, 
the user would be shown the tag that briefly explains why the page is 
deleted, telling they will be redirected in some time and last but not 
least, show a link to the page history so if they knew they want to 
access the page content anyway, they can do it relatively easily.

> I think the problem for a comment system is that no one will see the
> comments unless it is a section on each page, since "###text" is a
> comment within the code of the page and is only seen when you are in the
> edit mode.
>
> Svetlana Belkin

Cheers,
Pasi

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