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.<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Beckett</b> <<a href="mailto:johnb.beckett@gmail.com">johnb.beckett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
Santhalus wrote:<br>>> What do we want? Rename and keep the old pages?<br>>> Or, rename and delete the old pages? How?<br>><br>> What about links to old pages by their old title (not<br>> VimTipNumber but the one we change)? There might exist some
<br>> places on the wiki and/or on external sites/mailing list<br>> which link by that. They would get broken if you removed<br>> the old page. Can we neglect them?<br><br>I have checked that there are only a couple of links to tips by
<br>their title in the current imported tips, and I'll fix them.<br><br>It's true that there could be links from the outside to old<br>titles - that of course is why wikia keeps the old page but<br>changes it to a redirect when a page is moved. However, our wiki
<br>has not been around for very long, and many of the titles we are<br>fixing are totally broken, so I think we could ignore the<br>possibility that some external links may be invalidated by<br>deleting the old titles.<br>
<br>Normally, a couple of pages might be moved to new titles in a<br>week, so it's sensible for the wiki to keep the old page. I was<br>genuinely wondering when I first wrote about this, but now I'm<br>firming to the view that it would be silly for us to keep 578
<br>almost-certainly useless redirect pages.<br><br>Problem is, I think the bot would need sysop privilege to delete<br>the pages. I don't understand who assigns sysop privilege, or<br>why.<br><br>John<br><br>_______________________________________________
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