[wiki] PopularPages - recommended update to F page.

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Just some thought here, on the PP page couldnt we just update the links of
stuff which has been merged and drop the old pages?


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Leigh Tate <leigh.tate at linuxmail.org>wrote:

> At this point, I am only dealing with the links on the actual index page,
> in this case <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/F>. The links are moved
> to the PP sandbox <
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PopularPages/ToBeReviewed>, as a heads
> up that those pages need to be addressed. They are available for anybody
> who wishes to do appropriate editing/updating/correcting! In the past, Pasi
> has done quite a few of these.
>
> One thing we never did address, was letting the PopularPages team know the
> pages are updated so that links can be reinserted in PP once again.
>
> Leigh
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Jonathan Aquilina
>
> Sent: 04/22/14 10:26 AM
>
> To: Tom Davies
>
> Subject: Re: [wiki] PopularPages - recommended update to F page.
>
> 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 outdated or tagged pages, or for versions no longer supported.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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