On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Craig James wrote: >> By using "current" and encouraging people to link to that, we could quickly >> change the Google pagerank so that a search for Postgres would turn up the >> most-recent version of documentation. > > How do you propose to encourage people to do that? If I had a good answer to > that question, I'd already be executing on it.
When people link to a page, they link to the URL they copy and paste out of the browser address bar. If http://postgresql.org/docs/9.0/* were to 302 redirect to http://postgresql.org/docs/current/* while 9.0 is the current release (and similarly for 9.1 and so on) I suspect we'd find many more links to current and fewer links to specific versions after a year or two. > I've made a habit of doing that when writing articles on the wiki, which > hopefully themselves become popular and then elevate those links (all of the > ones http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server for > example point to current). I don't know how to target "people who link to > the PostgreSQL manual" beyond raising awareness of the issue periodically on > these lists, like I did on this thread. Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
