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

[Fade S]

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.

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: 


http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2011-November/003772.html

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.

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?



________________________________
From: mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com>
To: Blender Documentation Project <bf-docboard at blender.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 8:44 PM
Subject: [Bf-docboard] Redirecting old 2.3 docs: help needed!

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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