Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:33:50 -0500 From: Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicate pages Message-ID: <20021211193350.GC12310@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <200212111815.gBBIFjxx042278@intruder.bmah.org> References: <3DF5A7CE.10210.1F97770D@localhost> <3DF73795.26681.25B135DB@localhost> <200212111815.gBBIFjxx042278@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:15:44AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, "Dan Langille" wrote: > > > > The Web site rebuild doesn't remove old files, so over time, we grow > > > an accumulation of cruft. Even though there are no pointers to the > > > cruft from anywhere on our own Web site, there could easily be > > > pointers from external sites (such as search engines). > > [snip] > > > I found these duplicates via google. Which means other people will > > be finding the old stuff too.... > > Grrr. I was afraid of that. I found some duplicates through the FreeBSD search engine, too. > (But then what happens to the old links in Google? Are people going to > get annoyed when the old links don't work anymore?) Eventually, the links in Google and elsewhere will fade away. The real problem is when people link to x4041.html, and that page magically disappears. We could replace those pages with redirects to what they should be now, but that'll take a lot of effort. The alternative is to say "oops!", and accept that this won't cause huge amounts of damage now, and will likely be totally forgotten in two years' time. > It'd be nice if the internal links for our documentation pages didn't > change, but that would require some (large, I suspect) changes to the > DocBook toolchain. Not really. It'll require adding IDs to each of the individual sections. Z. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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