[dokuwiki] Re: recent massive changes on wiki.splitbrain.org

Am Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:22:40 +0200
schrieb Anika Henke <a.c.henke@xxxxxxxx>:

> Yesterday evening there have been some massive changes on 
> wiki.splitbrain.org (by 82.224.163.148).

Hum, doing massive anonymous changes undiscussed is really bad style.
 
> Although most of it is really well thought out, there are a few
> problems I like to discuss here first before probably restoring
> anything.
> 
> 1. Many pages were moved from the wiki namespace to new
> ...
> at wiki:requirements.) We should either fix all links or ...? What do
> you think?

Fix all links. It should be easy to write a script that finds all of
them. BTW: MediaWiki has the concept of "SpecialPages" (e.g.
BrokenRedirects). Are there plans for DW to implement a similar thing?

> 2. The boldest change and biggest problem is this: 
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:config?rev=1216730575&do=diff
> We really should discuss this first, because that page is one of the 
> most frequented and important ones!
> Although I (again) like the idea, it is still very "dangerous". I 
> presume, many external URLs link here. Any idea how to solve this?
> What about moving this new page to "wiki:configuration" and reverting 
> the old content?

And on the long run? Maintain both? If the new structure is "better",
stick to it. It was unpolite, but dont revert if we dont like the
predecessor. External links will get updated by themselves. A Big Fat
Disclaimer will be enough.

I like the new structure because its a bit more hierarchical. But
whoever did it, should now take the responsibility and help fixing any
problems he/she introduced.

My 2cents, Sebastian.
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