if someone can explain to me the workflow, i'm ready to start mapping
2.4 docs to 2.5/2.6 with content corrections and new screenshots
reflecting the updates. I'd start with game engine and physics stuff. I
could at least be creating the updated content in a sandbox until the
linking/SEO is finalized.<br>
<br>
k<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM, mindrones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mindrones@gmail.com">mindrones@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On 11/03/2011 02:35 PM, Jaagup Irve wrote:<br>
> Mindrones: I'd be willing to help if I'm online at the time. You are 1<br>
> timezone away but I'm sometimes able to postpone my sleep. I can be<br>
> found at skype under jaagup.irve user if I'm not in the IRC (which<br>
> happens sometimes).<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">On 11/05/2011 02:21 AM, Fade S wrote:<br>
> I'm happy to help with this.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Cool thanks guys :)<br>
<br>
I see Irve in irc quite often; Fade, never tried to join #blenderwiki?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/05/2011 02:21 AM, Fade S wrote:<br>
> How do you want to split up the work to<br>
> avoid duplication? Maybe we can assign volunteers a section in the order<br>
> they've emailed. e.g. you take Section 1: Introduction to Blender,<br>
> Jaagup takes Section 2: Modelling, materials and lights, I take Section<br>
> 3: etc.<br>
<br>
</div>First of all,<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/</a><br>
<br>
is a Reference and we can redirect these after we have done the<br>
automatic reference, so let's focus on<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/</a><br>
<br>
There we have 180 links:<br>
<br>
A)<br>
From: I. Introduction to Blender<br>
To: II. Modelling, Materials and Lights<br>
----------------------------------------------<br>
88 links<br>
<br>
B)<br>
From: III. Animation<br>
To: Glossary<br>
----------------------------------------------<br>
92 links<br>
<br>
<br>
What about: Irve -> A | Fade -> B, so I can go ahead on other stuff? :)<br>
<br>
Is that ok?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> I do have a few queries though. Why are we mapping it to the 2.4 manual<br>
> and not the 2.6 manual? From the mapping and your later post here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2011-November/003772.html" target="_blank">http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2011-November/003772.html</a><br>
><br>
> It seems like we'll be mapping 2.3-->2.4, then aligning 2.4 to 2.6 as<br>
> much as possible. If I've understood this and the later SEO discussions<br>
> correctly (and very likely I haven't ;)), it means that people will<br>
> search for "blender extrusion", find the 2.3 page, get shifted over to<br>
> the 2.4 manual via the server mapping and then redirected to 2.<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> If you're going to align 2.4 and 2.6, would it not be simpler to wait<br>
> until that is done, then just map 2.3 directly to 2.6?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>After the mapping, google will know that a certain 2.3 page is now<br>
Doc:2.4/Manual/Foo.<br>
<br>
But Doc:2.4/Manual/Foo is crosslinked to Doc:2.5/Manual/Foo and google<br>
knows this :)<br>
<br>
So, by searching for "blender foo" in the search results stack we will<br>
hopefully find Doc:2.6/Manual/Foo alongside of Doc:2.4/Manual/Foo.<br>
By choosing 2.6, we're saying google that we prefer 2.6 and I think<br>
google takes in account the human choice too, to calculate a page ranking.<br>
<br>
This way we won't damage articles linking to old pages (think to the<br>
animation chapters which are quite different and partly incompatible).<br>
<br>
Hope this makes sense for you guys too?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/05/2011 09:49 AM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:<br>
> Another aspect:<br>
><br>
> The 2.3 -> 2.4 (or 3.6) redirect will be within the same website<br>
</div>> (<a href="http://blender.org" target="_blank">blender.org</a> <<a href="http://blender.org" target="_blank">http://blender.org</a>>).<br>
<div class="im">> Such links may not help in increasing the rating at all.<br>
<br>
</div>These would not be links, but permanent redirects.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> For higher ranking, the pages need inbound links from OTHER websites.<br>
> In fact, the tag analysis points out that there are no inbound links<br>
at present.<br>
<br>
</div>These pages won't link to wiki, because they won't exist anymore, so<br>
there wouldn't be backlinks at all.<br>
<br>
The reason to use a permanent redirect is to tell the search engine<br>
where to go look when they won't find the high rank pages anymore.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure if this will attribute the high rank to the wiki pages<br>
somehow, but surely this is better than just removing the pages and hope<br>
that this will make the wiki pages jump up of 1 step in the results stack :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Luca<br>
<br>
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