[wiki] PopularPages - recommended update to F page.

Tue Apr 22 17:00:32 UTC 2014

Hi :)
Ahh, yes i meant archive.  Thanks for your timely post! :)

So it is important for us to keep both pages to keep both older versions
reasonably accessible!!
Regards from
Tom :)

On 22 April 2014 17:11, Daniel Doyle <tr33m4n at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> My names Daniel Doyle, I'm a Drupal developer and studio engineer. I've
> been subscribed to this mailing list since 2007 but only ever read, never
> participated. I'm making myself know now because in the e-mail Tom Davies
> sent he mentioned about getting rid of the FireWire pages? Or have I got
> the wrong end of the stick? Do you mean to simply archive them?
>
> I'd say this would be a bad move as a lot of professional audio equipment
> still relies on FireWire and having these pages is a useful reference.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Doyle
> On 22 Apr 2014 16:58, "Tom Davies" <tomcecf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi :)
>> There is not much point in updating the old pages imo.
>>
>> I think Firewire didn't really take-off as much as it was anticipated to
>> do.  Ethernet and usb-cables still dominate.  Mac systems seem to be
>> completely upgraded much more often so i doubt there's a huge demand for
>> the older FireWire systems under Ubuntu.
>>
>> It might be good to keep at least 1 of the pages but only if it/they can
>> be stuffed out  of the way a bit.  I like the sub-pages under
>> xxxxxxxxx/old/xxxxxxx
>> and think at least 1 of the pages might be best 'archived' there.
>>
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22 April 2014 16:11, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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