+1 for deletion IMHO, You should head for the cleanest solution possible to keep the maintenance effort low.
Martin -- Martin Kerz /// [email protected] Am 07.09.2013 um 14:03 schrieb Petko Yotov <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I'd like to know the opinion of the community about deleting pages from the > documentation of the default PmWiki distribution. This concerns not only new > users but also those who upgrade from older versions. > > PmWiki ships with a number of pages containing documentation in the PmWiki > group. As we work to improve the documentation, while refactoring, content > can be moved from a page to other(s) and some pages may become empty. > > In this case we search pmwiki.org for backlinks and point them to the new > place of the information, so that no page on pmwiki.org points to the empty > page. > > There is also concern for "link rot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot > that is, external sites possibly pointing to the empty page - in this case, > we can use a (:redirect NewPage status=301:) directive so when someone lands > on the old page it gets automatically sent to the new place with the > information. > > Or, instead of redirecting, we could delete that page and when people land on > it, they will see an invitation to search the wiki or to create the page. > (Recently, previously deleted pages have been re-created by spambots adding > unrelated links, but our main concern is to not confuse real people.) > > When someone upgrades from an old version, the core documentation gets > updated too, but only existing and new pages. If a page was removed from the > distribution and someone upgrades, they will still have the old page in their > wikilib.d directory, with the old content. So they will have an orphan page > with obsolete content. If, instead of deleting the page, we use a redirect, > they will have a tiny page and if elsewhere on their wiki (or on external > sites) they have linked to it, it will redirect to the most recent > information. If nothing links to this page, they will have a tiny orphan page. > > In a new, clean PmWiki installation, if we delete the page, everything's > fine; if we redirect the page, they will have a tiny orphan page. > > So my question to the community is should we delete empty pages or redirect > them to the latest place of the content? Are there other pros and cons? > > Thanks, > Petko > > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
