Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread James A. Treacy
A rather long list of bad links on the web site can be found at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/. Please help fix them by taking a section and working on it. Start by fixing the easy mistakes first. Once we get the list down to a managable sice, we can worry about the rest. Announce which section

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:07:36AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: Announce which section you will be working on here so we don't duplicate effort. i'll take intro Marcin -- ++ The reason we come up with new versions |Marcin Owsiany | is not to

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:02:06PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:07:36AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: A rather long list of bad links on the web site can be found at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/. Should we also fix the links in translated versions? Marcin --

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:02:06PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: A rather long list of bad links on the web site can be found at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/. I'm looking at releases/, and I think I'll eliminate the slink release notes problem bunch in a minute... Actually, there's a

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, there's a problem with the textual files. There are no release-notes.*.txt files for languages other than English on master under /org/www.debian.org/debian.org/releases/slink, for some reason. The English ones were placed in a different location

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:04:23PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:02:06PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:07:36AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: A rather long list of bad links on the web site can be found at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/.

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread James A. Treacy
I have regenerated all the pages after fixing the regex. Many of them are much smaller now. :) I should point out one particular problem (there are others) with the current urlchecker. If a link to a dir does not contain a final /, then the root doesn't get set correctly and links will be

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread peter karlsson
Marcin Owsiany: Should we also fix the links in translated versions? (Speaking as the coordinator for the Swedish version) Yes, please. However, make sure that when you update a link on a page in a translation, they generally contain markers on which version it translates. If this marker

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:13:16PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: I should point out one particular problem (there are others) with the current urlchecker. If a link to a dir does not contain a final /, then the root doesn't get set correctly and links will be searched in the wrong directory.

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread James A. Treacy
Another quirk of this urlchecker is that while it only checks each url once, it also only lists a bad link the first time it encounters it. This means that you need to check the translations for the same bad link. If another page contains that link, it won't be found until the next run. :( I have

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:29:27PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: Another quirk of this urlchecker is that while it only checks each url once, it also only lists a bad link the first time it encounters it. This means that you need to check the translations for the same bad link. If another page

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
James A. Treacy wrote: A rather long list of bad links on the web site can be found at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/. Please help fix them by taking a section and working on it. Start by fixing the easy mistakes first. Once we get the list down to a managable sice, we can worry about the

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
Here is a problem with your link checker: Looking into http://localhost/News/weekly/1999/24/index.sv.html http://localhost/News/weekly/1999/24/signdebs : error 404 Not Found The html though, is: a name=signdebs/a This is not a link at all.. Also, when you search/replaced for