> On 1 Oct 2018, at 09:40, Guillaume Delhumeau <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> 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
We do that already AFAIK :)
> so it won't be
> listed anymore, instead of changing the default behavior?
Thanks
-Vincent
>
>
>> - 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
