https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118235
Bug ID: 118235
Summary: obsolete LO wiki help pages dominate Google search
results
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Documentation
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: i...@skierpage.com
CC: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org
If you do a Google search for "LibreOffice Calc help", the top result is
Welcome to the LibreOffice Calc Help - LibreOffice Help
https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Welcome_to_the_Calc_Help
Jul 19, 2013
that page and most of what it links to look plausible, but they seem to all be
old wiki help pages that are obsolete. E.g. "Main page" is
https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page ; if you navigate to Menu help at
https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Menus , it completely omits the Styles menu;
etc. Many of the other links in Google search results are similarly to old wiki
pages, including "Spreadsheet functions" and "Functions by category". Only the
second result
LibreOffice Help
https://help.libreoffice.org/
redirects to up-to-date 6.0 help.
I assume you don't want to update this old wiki help material. Some mix of the
following would address the problem:
* Each help wiki page should display "DEPRECATED, OLD HELP FOR VERSION 3.14,
online help for recent LibreOffice now starts at
https://help.libreoffice.org/";. A MediaWiki template or modifications to the
wiki skin could do this.
* You could take the technique that redirects help.libreoffice.org to
version-specific help, and reuse it on these wiki pages.
* You could add rel=canonical links to the <HEAD> of wiki pages that link each
page to the latest documentation, which would encourage Google to rank these
pages lower than up-to-date documentation in results.
* You could simply delete these wiki pages (the Wayback machine has them), or
archive them on another site.
I'm sure there's a bug about deprecating old wiki help pages, but I couldn't
find it. Outdated wiki content is the bane of documentation :-)
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