[wiki] Move instead of delete?

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 17/12/13 00:43, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> On 12/16/2013 05:19 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>> 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.
> Is it possible to have the reason on that redirected message?  That
> could work if it's possible.
>
> Svetlana Belkin

Excatly what I said; yes.

Pasi

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