Le jeu. 20 sept. 2018 à 07:30, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi devs,
>
> We see more and more wikis with tons of redirects and issues to manage
> them, see https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14570
>
> “
> Rationale for turning it off by default:
> - Several users have reported a usability issue about automatic redirects.
> The way they express it is the following: "I have duplicates pages in my
> wiki. I don't understand why this is happening. I'm choosing to rename
> pages and not to copy them but I still get duplicates in the Navigation
> panel".
>

Can't we hide the original page when we add the redirection so it won't be
listed anymore, instead of changing the default behavior?


> - Automatic redirects are especially useful for public wikis where users
> can have bookmark on pages and you don't want to break them. It can also be
> useful for internal wikis but it's less an issue.
> - Even for public wikis not all pages need automatic redirects. Technical
> pages don't need them for example.
> “
>
> I’ve had Ludovic report that to me too again this morning.
>
> Since we’ve been knowing about the problem for a while already and since
> it’s very easy to change the default behavior, I’d like to propose that we
> turn it off by default in XWiki 10.8 (ie right now, or if you think it’s
> really too dangerous in 10.9), and that we implement an option to configure
> the default behavior later on (https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13384).
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
>

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Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected])
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project

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