<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I'm happy to help with this. How do you want to split up the work to avoid duplication? Maybe we can assign volunteers a section in the order they've emailed. e.g. you take Section 1: Introduction to Blender, Jaagup takes Section 2: Modelling, materials and lights, I take Section 3: etc.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I do have a few queries though. Why are we mapping it to the 2.4 manual and not the 2.6 manual? From the mapping and your later post here: <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2011-November/003772.html</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>It seems like we'll be mapping 2.3-->2.4, then aligning 2.4 to 2.6 as much as possible. If I've understood this and the later SEO discussions correctly (and very likely
I haven't ;)), it means that people will search for "blender extrusion", find the 2.3 page, get shifted over to the 2.4 manual via the server mapping and then redirected to 2.6.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>If you're going to align 2.4 and 2.6, would it not be simpler to wait until that is done, then just map 2.3 directly to 2.6?<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> mindrones <mindrones@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Blender Documentation Project <bf-docboard@blender.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 2 November 2011 8:44 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bf-docboard]
Redirecting old 2.3 docs: help needed!<br></font><br>Hi all,<br><br>we need some volunteers!<br><br>If anyone has some spare time to dedicate to the issue explained below,<br>please reply with a mail here so we can distribute the effort. When you<br>are done, please paste the result in pasteall.org and send the link to<br>this list.<br><br>Thanks! :)<br><br>Regards,<br>Luca<br><br><br><br>Issue<br>---------------<br><br>The old 2.3 docs are better ranked than the wiki pages!<br><br>Example<br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=blender+extrude" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=blender+extrude</a><br><br>gives:<br><br>www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html<br>1st google page, 4th link<br><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics#Extrusion" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics#Extrusion</a><br>4th google page, 9th
link...<br><br><br>Solution<br>---------------<br><br>Redirect all subpages of:<br><br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/</a><br>and<br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/</a><br><br>to their correspondent wiki page, with a permanent (301) redirect.<br>This way search engines will know that, for example:<br><br>www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html<br><br>is now dead and instead they have to look for<br><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics</a><br><br><br>What do we need?<br>------------------<br><br>The server admin needs a mapping<br><br>old blender.org 2.3 manual page => relative wiki page<br><br>for all the html pages in the old
manuals.<br><br>I'll add some examples here to make this clear:<br><br><br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/p86.html" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/p86.html</a><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction</a><br>--<br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/p86.html" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/p86.html</a><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction</a><br>--<br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x115.html" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x115.html</a><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/History"
target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/History</a><br>--<br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x179.html" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x179.html</a><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/License" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/License</a><br>--<br><a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x204.html" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x204.html</a><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/Community" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/Community</a><br>--<br><br>...<br><br>--<br><br>www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html<br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics"
target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics</a><br><br>...<br><br><br>Note that there could be multiple mapping, like 2 html pages pointing at<br>the same wiki page, or 1 html page that correspond to more than one wiki<br>page.<br><br><br><br><br>_____________________________<br><br><a href="http://www.mindrones.com" target="_blank">http://www.mindrones.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bf-docboard mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Bf-docboard@blender.org" href="mailto:Bf-docboard@blender.org">Bf-docboard@blender.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard" target="_blank">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>