<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I agree that having redirects working as good as possible is very important.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><p class="airmail_on" style="color:#000;">On 3 Jun 2015 at 09:55:49, gandalf3 (<a href="mailto:zzyxpaw@gmail.com">zzyxpaw@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div></div><div><div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>IMO It's a lot easier to define a redirect for every page than to edit every link in even one corner of the internet such as SE.<br>We will already be editing (even rewriting in some cases) most of the pages in the manual at some point or another.<br>Compared to that, IMO defining a redirect for every page (or at least most pages) doesn't seem too bad, assuming it's about as quick as typing "/path/to/wiki/page -> /path/to/manual/page".</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>Pages do not always align 1:1, that’s one of the problems.</p><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Where does the maintenance come in? Once a page is redirected, I would expect that to be the end of that.. Right?</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div><p>Yes, but then if the new manual is updated further, those redirects need to be updated. Also we might want to look into a proper solution if we want to set up redirects for 100s of pages.</p><p>Maybe Dan has some advice on this?</p><p>F</p></body></html>