[wiki] PopularPages - recommended update to F page.

[Jonathan Aquilina]

I see an issue with that if the info has been merged I would put a notice
on the page and remove the content. If the content remains though people
wont go to the new page with the merged info.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Thanks for the clarification there.  That does make me agree with you and
> Geoff.
>
> I think the proper way to do a redirect is to put this line at the top of
> the 'old' page
>
> #REDIRECT [[QA/BugReport]]
>
> where
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/QA/BugReport
>
> would be the 'new' page.  Errr, i copied and modified this from a
> LibreOffice wiki which i happened to know was a redirect so ymmv.  I'm
> particularly uncertain about leaving out the "community" bit so it might be
>
> #REDIRECT [[community/QA/BugReport]]
>
> or i could so far off that it's completely wrong.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 22 April 2014 13:25, Leigh Tate <leigh.tate at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Geoff!
>>
>> Tom, the only thing being moved is the links to the pages, not the pages
>> themselves. Bookmarks will be uneffected. PopularPages is simply an index.
>>
>> Before the NewDocs Team merged with the Ubuntu Doc team (and changed the
>> name to PopularPages), we set up guidelines to keep the index up to date
>> and easy to use. That meant periodic link checking and (re)moving links of
>> outdated or tagged pages, or for versions no longer supported.
>>
>> Leigh
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 03:28:20 +0100
>> From: Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wiki] PopularPages - recommended update to F page.
>>
>>
>> Hi :)
>> Moving pages around is likely to break redirects and links that people have
>> in their "bookmarks".
>>
>> Redirects are quite simple once you know how to do them.  It's just a case
>> of remembering how.  Errr, i can't remember tbh.
>>
>> It might be more polite to initially put a simple clickable url address and
>> add a note to say that the page has been merged to there.
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>>
>>
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