[Vim-l] Titles project

[John Beckett]

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