Personally, I'm a big fan of keeping information in one easy to access place.
If it were me, I would put the articles in their own section on the wiki under
a helpful title, where they could also be linked to from other articles in the
wiki, e.g. an article on how to install FreeDOS could link to How-Tos detailing
how one would partition and format their drive. I'm no SEO expert by far, but I
would think that the fact that the articles are not simply copy-pasted but are
also linked to from other pages on the site - not to mention that there is a
ton of other content on the wiki, making it more than a simple copy-paste
ripoff of the source site - would mitigate the down-ranking which Google et al.
may otherwise do.
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On Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 10:09 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
> I've been moving the FreeDOS wiki content over by copy/paste. And I've
> finished almost all of the tricky pages .. then it's a collection of
> small pages (mostly usage pages for programs) which I think should go
> quickly. Then I'll add wiki editor accounts for anyone who wants them.
>
> The new wiki will be here:
> https://wiki.freedos.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> (don't bookmark that yet .. the "w" part in the URL will likely go away)
>
>
> Question:
>
> What to do about the "Networking How-to"? This is a collection of
> pages that wasn't written as a typical "wiki" page (every page in a
> wiki should stand on its own, with links to other pages for more info)
> but as a series of pages that follow step 1, step 2, .. etc.
>
> Should I just copy/paste those pages into the new wiki, or move them
> out into a new kind of "how-to" article?
>
> We have another collection of pages for an "Installation Guide" and I
> have the same question there.
>
>
> Related:
>
> I (and others) wrote a bunch of articles about FreeDOS for
> Opensource.com before they stopped publishing (about a year ago).
> Opensource.com is still up, and I'd like to copy/paste the FreeDOS
> articles into a website that we control in case Opensource.com goes
> away. At least the articles I wrote, and I can ask permission of other
> authors if I have their contact info.
>
> Again, these aren't written to be "wiki" pages, they are standalone
> articles about how to do something in FreeDOS (like how to use CD and
> DIR, other useful commands, conio programming, .. etc) in 800 to 1000
> words.
> https://opensource.com/tags/freedos
>
> Should I just copy/paste those into the new wiki, or should I create a
> new website to republish these, like a howto.freedos.org website .. or
> maybe a "howto" directory on the new wiki website (but outside the
> "wiki" itself) like wiki.freedos.org/howto .. or a "howto" directory
> on the main website, like www.freedos.org/howto .. what's the best
> plan? Since Google's "SEO" ranking generally "down-ranks" websites
> that copy/paste content from other websites, creating a new website
> name like howto.freedos.org seems like a good idea, but I don't want
> to create a bunch of work for myself if others have a better idea
>
>
> Jim
>
>
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