Personally, I'm a big fan of keeping information in one easy to access place. If it were me, I would put the articles in their own section on the wiki under a helpful title, where they could also be linked to from other articles in the wiki, e.g. an article on how to install FreeDOS could link to How-Tos detailing how one would partition and format their drive. I'm no SEO expert by far, but I would think that the fact that the articles are not simply copy-pasted but are also linked to from other pages on the site - not to mention that there is a ton of other content on the wiki, making it more than a simple copy-paste ripoff of the source site - would mitigate the down-ranking which Google et al. may otherwise do.
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 10:09 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I've been moving the FreeDOS wiki content over by copy/paste. And I've > finished almost all of the tricky pages .. then it's a collection of > small pages (mostly usage pages for programs) which I think should go > quickly. Then I'll add wiki editor accounts for anyone who wants them. > > The new wiki will be here: > https://wiki.freedos.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page > > (don't bookmark that yet .. the "w" part in the URL will likely go away) > > > Question: > > What to do about the "Networking How-to"? This is a collection of > pages that wasn't written as a typical "wiki" page (every page in a > wiki should stand on its own, with links to other pages for more info) > but as a series of pages that follow step 1, step 2, .. etc. > > Should I just copy/paste those pages into the new wiki, or move them > out into a new kind of "how-to" article? > > We have another collection of pages for an "Installation Guide" and I > have the same question there. > > > Related: > > I (and others) wrote a bunch of articles about FreeDOS for > Opensource.com before they stopped publishing (about a year ago). > Opensource.com is still up, and I'd like to copy/paste the FreeDOS > articles into a website that we control in case Opensource.com goes > away. At least the articles I wrote, and I can ask permission of other > authors if I have their contact info. > > Again, these aren't written to be "wiki" pages, they are standalone > articles about how to do something in FreeDOS (like how to use CD and > DIR, other useful commands, conio programming, .. etc) in 800 to 1000 > words. > https://opensource.com/tags/freedos > > Should I just copy/paste those into the new wiki, or should I create a > new website to republish these, like a howto.freedos.org website .. or > maybe a "howto" directory on the new wiki website (but outside the > "wiki" itself) like wiki.freedos.org/howto .. or a "howto" directory > on the main website, like www.freedos.org/howto .. what's the best > plan? Since Google's "SEO" ranking generally "down-ranks" websites > that copy/paste content from other websites, creating a new website > name like howto.freedos.org seems like a good idea, but I don't want > to create a bunch of work for myself if others have a better idea > > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
