Santhalus wrote: >> What do we want? Rename and keep the old pages? >> Or, rename and delete the old pages? How? > > What about links to old pages by their old title (not > VimTipNumber but the one we change)? There might exist some > places on the wiki and/or on external sites/mailing list > which link by that. They would get broken if you removed > the old page. Can we neglect them?
I have checked that there are only a couple of links to tips by their title in the current imported tips, and I'll fix them. It's true that there could be links from the outside to old titles - that of course is why wikia keeps the old page but changes it to a redirect when a page is moved. However, our wiki has not been around for very long, and many of the titles we are fixing are totally broken, so I think we could ignore the possibility that some external links may be invalidated by deleting the old titles. Normally, a couple of pages might be moved to new titles in a week, so it's sensible for the wiki to keep the old page. I was genuinely wondering when I first wrote about this, but now I'm firming to the view that it would be silly for us to keep 578 almost-certainly useless redirect pages. Problem is, I think the bot would need sysop privilege to delete the pages. I don't understand who assigns sysop privilege, or why. John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
