Message: 9
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:56:23 +0100
From: Mark Bergsma <mark(a)nedworks.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] New mail servers leave
many broken links
To: Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Message-ID: <45A50CA7.4040906(a)nedworks.org>
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David Gerard wrote:
On 10/01/07, Birgitte SB
<birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> The transfer of the the mailing list archives
have
> resulted in broken links throughout the
projects.
Can
> this somehow be fixed on the server side?
Can we
> possibily keep copies of all archives up till now
in
> both places? If the links themselves have to
be
edited
> is this something that can be done by a bot?
I
don't
> think it is a good idea to leave these links
as
404
errors.
It's an appallingly bad idea and needs fixing,
yes. Rewrite rule on
What are you talking about? There *is* one in place
already, and has
always been.
Example, maybe?
--
Mark
mark(a)nedworks.org
Sorry if I am not describing this well. But on the the
wiki's if there is an html link to a post in the
mailing list archive it is now broken. For example
all the links on this page:
But these links are all over all the wiki's as part of
different disscussions, policies, etc.
Birgitte SB
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