handling deleted pages (was:Re: [pmwiki-users] EmacsPmWikiMode?? Another Newb question...:))

Grorge J. De Bruin gdb at soundchasers.com
Tue Feb 15 19:05:58 CST 2005


IMO - I rather like that suggestion...

// George

----- Original Message -----
Subject: handling deleted pages (was:Re:
[pmwiki-users]  EmacsPmWikiMode?? Another Newb
question...:))
From: nospam at mail.eton.ca
To: pmichaud at pobox.com;gdb at soundchasers.com
Date: 02-14-2005 7:45 pm


> At 2005-02-13  11:18 AM -0600, Patrick R.
Michaud is rumored to have said:
> >Note that RecentChanges and AllRecentChanges
are
> >not created using (:pagelist:).  They're just
> >wiki pages (like any other page) that are
updated
> >whenever a page is changed.  So, when a page is
> >deleted, the links that exist on RecentChanges
> >become links to non-existent pages.  (This is
as it
> >should be, so that people can see that pages
have
> >been deleted and review things accordingly.)
> 
> Would it not make more sense if the record
inserted into RecentChanges for 
> a deleted page simply named the page, but did
not make it a link?
> 
> Consider that clicking on the link on the
current mode does not take you to 
> the deleted page, it takes you to a new page
with the same name. I can't 
> imagine wanting to create a new blank page, but
I can imagine trying to 
> restore the deleted page. The only way to do
that (now) is for an admin to 
> rename the deleted file.
> 
> With a non-linked page name on RecentChanges,
users can see that the page 
> was changed and some might even conclude that it
was deleted since there is 
> no link to it.
> 
> 
> Neil
> 
> Neil Herber
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> Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON,
Canada K2H 6B1
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