[WikiEN-l] Moving the Main Page (sic)

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

It might be just me, but I don't think a movie or book titled "Main Page"
would actually get sold to a editor or studio representative. Titles are key
to drawing in an audience, and when someone came to me with that as a title,
I'd ask them to change it.

Mgm


On 1/14/07, PeruvianLlama <peruvianllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Luna wrote:
> > Right. But since we're obviously going to need such a redirect, what do
> we
> > gain from moving Main Page? It's a lot of work for...?
> >
> The idea would be that such a redirect would be temporary. The problem
> of having Main_Page in the namespace wouldn't be solved overnight, or
> even in a matter of days. But at least it would be solved a year (or 6
> months, or whatever) down the road. That's a long time, but like I said,
> I haven't seen anyone claiming that this is really any kind of an
> immediate worry. It's just a good idea for the sake of long-term
> consistency.
>
> If we wait until the movie/book/etc. called "Main Page" is made and
> suddenly wants to be in that article page, then we no longer have the
> luxury of doing things at a reasonable pace. Then it really will be a
> big issue to update all of our internal links, and to hope that external
> links update quickly enough. If we're proactive about this, we might be
> saving ourselves a headache. At worst, like I said, we're at least being
> consistent.
>
>
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > And it still doesn't open up the page for any potential films, books or
> > articles on anything else, because leaving a redirect is what we need to
> not
> > kill incoming links from outside of Wikipedia.
> > Mgm
> Not immediately no, but it opens up the possibility of doing so in the
> future. After a year we can drop the redirect, since most/all of the
> external links will have updated. Those that haven't, well, a broken
> link or three isn't going to bring either Wikipedia or the internet at
> large to its knees. The reason I posted this idea was because the main
> three objections to moving appeared to be:
> 1) It will be too big a strain on the servers to move such a big page
> 2) It will be too much of a hassle to update internal links
> 3) It will be too much of a hassle to update external links
>
> I think that if it came to it, we could enlist the help of devs or other
> technical wizardry to eliminate the hurdles of objection #1. Objection
> #2 has already been rebutted. I was taking aim at objection #3.
>
> There isn't any wildly important reason to move Main_Page somewhere
> else, and I say again, it certainly isn't a terribly time-sensitive
> issue. But on the other hand, there don't seem to be any wildly
> important reasons to _not_ move Main_Page, other than things being too
> much of a hassle.
>
> Cheers,
> - PeruvianLlama
>
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