[pmwiki-users] pages with (:redirect:) in group 'PmWiki'
Christian Bartolomaeus
bartolin at gmx.de
Wed Mar 12 10:35:51 CDT 2008
Hi Pm,
On 2008-03-12, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:05:02PM +0100, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote:
> > So my questions are:
> >
> > 1.) Would it be okay to tag those pages in PmWiki with a page text
> > variable like
> > (:Redirect: true:)
> > If so, we could filter our list of "relevant" documenation pages
> > based on this page text variable.
> >
> > 2.) Is there a better way to filter those pages?
>
> We don't need the page variable to do the filter -- one can
> also do the following to filter out all pages containing "(:redirect":
>
> (:pagelist -"(:redirect" :)
There seems to be a small problem with this approach since this
pagelist excludes pages like PmWiki/MarkupMasterIndex -- e.g. pages
which have no active redirect but who describe that directive.
> > 3.) Would is be okay to delete pages with a simple redirect directive
> > in 'PmWiki' -- after searching for 'back links' and adjusting
> > those? Since there would still be problems with external links to
> > those pages it might be better to keep them.
>
> I don't know that there would be many external links left. For
> example, a Google search for
>
> "link:www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SimpleTables"
>
> returns no results. So, in this case it's probably okay to
> make sure all of the internal links are correct and then
> remove the page. (And if we discover we're wrong, we can
> always put the redirect page back.)
On 2008-03-12, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:05:02PM +0100, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote:
> >
> > there are some pages in the group 'PmWiki' which simple redirect to
> > other pages (e.g. WikiWords -> WikiWord, SimpleTables -> Tables ...).
>
> Also, note that the WikiWords -> WikiWord page is part of the
> actual distribution -- i.e., PmWiki ships with both pages,
> so it shouldn't (can't) be deleted.
Based on this advice I build a list of "deprecated pages" in the group
'PmWiki' (see [1]).
If we want to keep both versions of the following pages
WikiWord -- WikiWords
WikiGroup -- WikiGroups
PerGroupCustomization -- PerGroupCustomizations
that leaves us with the following candidates for deletion.
PmWiki.AdvancedTables
PmWiki.Analyzer
PmWiki.Backup
PmWiki.DocumentationAudiences
PmWiki.Group
PmWiki.ImagesInWikiPages
PmWiki.LinkMarkup
PmWiki.Localization
PmWiki.NotifyList
PmWiki.PmWikiSightings
PmWiki.SimpleTables
PmWiki.TranslatingTheFAQ
PmWiki.TranslationMechanism
PmWiki.TriadSkin
PmWiki.UsingCategories
Also, there are no backlinks to
PmWiki.SimpleTables2
I'm a bit reluctant to delete those pages -- maybe you can have a look
at my list first.
Best regards
Christian
[1] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/PagesInPmWikiGroupWithRedirect
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