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

[Pilotguy]

Indeed. Keep it the way it is now. There's no harm being done anyway.

On 1/15/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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