Re: old pages on fedora.redhat.com (Was: Re: Legal contact policy and incentives for contributors)

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On Thursday 13 July 2006 02:56, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Patrick W. Barnes schrieb:
> > On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:41, Rahul <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> There are two reasons we haven't already done this:
> >>> 1.  We have to use manual redirects.  Because of the way the site is
> >>> currently set up, we can't use automatic redirects.  This would be an
> >>> ugly way to greet fedora.redhat.com visitors.
> >>
> >> I dont really consider the current spartan pages a much better user
> >> experience and we are doing redundant work. We already know that
> >> fedora.redhat.com is not easily changed either.
> >
> > The pages on fedora.redhat.com are current, [...]
>
> While on this topic -- old pages like
> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/
> (new is http://fedora.redhat.com/About/ )
> are still around on the server. I was told the old pages are not linked
> to on fedora.redhat.com (good idea ;-) ), but google an other search
> engines still find them. That confusing. And even worse: Google for
> example sometimes lists the old pages higher in the results than the new
> pages. That a PITA and should be fixed by deleting the old stuff.
>

Back when we did the fedora.redhat.com revamp, we tried to add manual 
redirects from older pages to current pages.  If we've missed some (and I'm 
sure we have), they are worthy of bug reports.  The change of locations 
during the revamp was a disaster all its own.

There are links to bug templates on the Websites page of the wiki.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites

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