[Bf-docboard] Redirecting old 2.3 docs: help needed!

[mindrones]

Hi all,

we need some volunteers!

If anyone has some spare time to dedicate to the issue explained below,
please reply with a mail here so we can distribute the effort. When you
are done, please paste the result in pasteall.org and send the link to
this list.

Thanks! :)

Regards,
Luca



Issue
---------------

The old 2.3 docs are better ranked than the wiki pages!

Example

http://www.google.com/search?q=blender+extrude

gives:

www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html
1st google page, 4th link

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics#Extrusion
4th google page, 9th link...


Solution
---------------

Redirect all subpages of:

http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/
and
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/

to their correspondent wiki page, with a permanent (301) redirect.
This way search engines will know that, for example:

www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html

is now dead and instead they have to look for

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics


What do we need?
------------------

The server admin needs a mapping

old blender.org 2.3 manual page => relative wiki page

for all the html pages in the old manuals.

I'll add some examples here to make this clear:


http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/p86.html
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction
--
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/p86.html
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction
--
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x115.html
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/History
--
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x179.html
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/License
--
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x204.html
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/Community
--

...

--

www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics

...


Note that there could be multiple mapping, like 2 html pages pointing at
the same wiki page, or 1 html page that correspond to more than one wiki
page.




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