On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 12:31 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > Liam, > > no, I really meant projects-old.gnome.org which as I described on my > original e-mail was the pre-2013 projects page we had running before > transitioning to the new wiki.g.o based projects listing.
Yes, i understood that. Sorry if i wasn't clear. > I believe the engagement team was looking > into possible new ways to unify projects listing into one single > view, not sure what's the status there though. Then i'd suggest holding off until you know, because redirecting the old page to a new mechanism would make the most sense. As i said, there's lots of links to projects-old.gnome.org. Liam > > cheers, > Il giorno mer 5 dic 2018 alle ore 21:10 Liam R E Quin > <l...@holoweb.net> ha scritto: > > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:22 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > the projects-old website [1] was decided to be left around in > > > 2013 > > > right after transitioning projects pages to the GNOME's wiki > > > (projects.g.o is a vhost that contains a set of redirects since > > > then) > > > > i think you mean projects.gnome.org, right? > > > > That seems to be a lot less complete, and also just has project > > names > > and not explanations. So there's (out of date) information being > > lost. > > > > There are also a lot of external links to the page, so you'll break > > a > > lot of links (and, for what it's worth, hurt gnome.org's search > > ranking > > a little in the process). But this could be mitigated with an HTTP > > redirect to a page telling people how to find what they might have > > wanted. > > > > > for a short period of time while the transition was happening. I > > > believe it's now a good time (after 5+ years!) to retire the > > > former > > > website all together. > > > > If it goes, it might be helpful to add short descriptions to > > projects.gnome.org, although that would mean a bunch of work of > > course. > > The (current) wiki pages are not organized enough to make this a > > question of easy scraping so maybe the answer is to automate > > something > > that grabs the page title from the linked pages, and encourage > > project > > maintaners to edit their wiki pages as needed? > > > > On the other hand it's fun exploring the page to find out what > > things > > are :) > > > > The new page is much better overall, even without descriptions, > > because > > of the division into categories. > > > > Liam (irc::ankh) > > > > > > -- > > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. > > Click here to have the slave beaten. > > > > -- Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. Click here to have the slave beaten. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
