Each page in Mahout's Confluence Wiki has 2 URLs, with differing page styles
and search behaviours
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Key: MAHOUT-804
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-804
Project: Mahout
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Website
Reporter: Dan Brickley
Priority: Trivial
There are two styles of URL in circulation for URLs into Mahout's Wiki
(presumably an Apache-wide configuration issue):
https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/svd-singular-value-decomposition.html vs
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/SVD+-+Singular+Value+Decomposition
They appear to be the self-same confluence 3.4.9 installation (or its raw
filetree). Each has a different search box at the top of the page. The version
with 'confluence/' in the path does a confluence search, and returns similar
URLs as results. The one with '.html' suffixes does a domain-constrained Google
search.
Despite markup canonicalising the confluence variant, ie. <link
rel="canonical"
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/SVD+-+Singular+Value+Decomposition";>
appearing in the confluence pages, it seems the Google search results
typically throw people into the other version of the Wiki site.
This is all mildly confusing, mildly annoying but overall mostly harmless. It
could be having some negative impact on google rank & suchlike, since incoming
links will be split between the two styles. Maybe this could be passed along to
the Wiki admins?
Which version does the Mahout team consider canonical URLs (for external links
etc)?
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