Hi Clayton, Jean-Baptiste, all Clayton wrote: >>> Sophie, I see that links on main FR wiki page work but use old location. >>> I think perhaps we should modify that because url bar in Firefox shows >>> the old url. It may be confusing. >>> I don't know if it is easy to replace all strings as eg >>> "[[Fr.openoffice.org/FAQ/" by "[[FR/FAQ/" >> The pages have been redirected. If you look at the top of the pages, >> you'll see the redirection link. Changing pages addresses is always a >> hurdle because they are linked between them. Out of that, the wiki pages >> has been bookmarked by a lot of people (several companies in fact), >> breaking those links means that they won't find them any more. So I'm >> not sure it would be a good idea. And of course, creating 750 pages >> again would be some work ;) > > This can be done by the WikiBot. It can run over a list of pages, scan > the text and change page contents based on a regular expression. So, in > theory at least I can pass the WikiBot over the "new" pages and change > all the links from the old to the new.
Wikibot has super powers ;-) So yes, please change them. > > It should work to look for [FR.openoffice.org and replace with [FR, and > [Documentation/FR and replace with [FR/Documentation. I would include > the [ in the pattern matching to ensure that the WikiBot only picks up > the links and not some other text that refers to the > Fr.openoffice.org.... but as I think about it there is a risk that this > pattern matching would pick up on links out to the external > Fr.openoffice.org website (if there are any). Hmmmm might have to have > a think about the regex syntax. Normally the links to the site should be fr.openoffice.org and not Fr.openoffice.org, so may be it will help with the syntax ? > > Anyway, the point being, it is possible to clean up links in the text. > > The redirects will stay in place regardless so that all external links > and any internal links that are missed will still work. Thank you. > > I won't do the WikiBot thing right now... maybe next week (Wednesday) I > can queue it up and let it run. Ok, thank you again :) Jean-Baptiste, I'll change the links in the OLH today. Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
