[Bf-docboard] Proposal for wiki -> manual redirects

[Jambay]

oops, read last mail first. Not sure about "total jail break" regarding redirects, but was meaning transfer of information not random junk links.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Trouble Daemon 
  To: Blender Documentation Project 
  Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 9:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bf-docboard] Proposal for wiki -> manual redirects


  Hi,

  Sorry, but controlling random, otherwise unrelated jails and servers, via some rst comment in a svn repo isn't happening. Were not going to start orchestrating the entire rack via comments! Get me the full list of redirects you need and they can be put into the server config.


  Dan




  On Fri, Jun 5, 2015, 9:01 PM gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:

    Since our conversation on IRC ended up rather confused, hopefully I can
    clarify what my idea is.

    The goal is to redirect wiki pages to corresponding manual pages with a
    system which allows any documentor to quickly and easily add redirects
    as they are noticed.
    My proposed solution is to:

    1. Define redirects by placing a special comment inside the manual
    page's source, containing the wiki page path.
    For example, you might put something like this:

         .. _wiki-redirect: /Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders

    In the rEST source of
    http://blender.org/manual/render/cycles/nodes/shaders.html.

    This would be easy to add when editing manual pages for other reasons,
    and would not require any extra actions when moving pages around inside
    the manual.

    2. Compile these urls into a list via a script which searches *.rst
    files for these comments, and uses the path of the *.rst file containing
    the comment as the destination of the redirect. So the example above
    would generate output like:

    /Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders ->
    /manual/render/cycles/nodes/shaders

    3. Use the resulting list (formatted however it needs to be) to perform
    redirection from the wiki, perhaps using the mediawiki redirection
    system Dan mentioned?


    Hope that clarifies things :)
    Any thoughts?

    --
    -gandalf3

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