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

[Gary Kirk]

Anyway, we can always create these articles as [[Main Page (book)]],
[[Main Page (film)]] and so on. It really is a non-issue - there's no
definite reason to move our Main Page.

Jm2p...

On 1/15/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Gary Kirk