Seems to me that a good solution would be to keep a redirect around for a limited amount of time before cleaning it up. That way people who have the tip bookmarked or whatever have at least some chance to update.
On 10/16/07, John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
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