Steve Holden wrote:
> Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>   
>>> The question is: is it worth continuing this web-scraping and analysis
>>> and potentially extending it to other reference mechanisms I am unaware
>>> of? I don't know whether the current redirection will eventually cause
>>> the web search engines to throw away the old references, but it would be
>>> nice to be able to move them forward if possible.
>>>     
>> Yes, this is extremely helpful. I'd like to get some better redirects
>> in place ASAP, so if you can work with your script to give me a
>> complete list I can throw 'em up. I've done a couple of things for
>> anyone who can help:
>>
>> * I've temporarily removed the global redirect; it's just confusing.
>> We'll replace it with more granular redirects a bit later.
>>
>> * I've added a page to the wiki for redirects:
>> http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DocumentationRedirects
>>
>> * I'll start writing some code to help with the redirects. We'll need
>> a bit of javascript to help with the fragment redirects since the web
>> server doesn't get fragments; I'll get that done.
>>
>> Monday morning I'm going to replace the redirects with whatever's at
>> the wiki page.
>>
>>   
> I re-did the work starting with the pre-refactor docs instead of the
> 0.96 ones, and I've added almost 1,000 redirects to the Wiki page. These
> are all based on <div> id's, let me know if there's anything else I
> should look at before Monday.
> 
It looks as though the global redirect may have been there long enough
to start Google replacing some of the original content now, I'm sorry to
say. I just searched for

  django http redirect

and the first hit was the root page of docs.djangoproject.com :(
-- 
Steve Holden        +1 571 484 6266   +1 800 494 3119
Holden Web LLC              http://www.holdenweb.com/

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Django developers" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to