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Updated by Wieland Lindenthal about 8 years ago
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Currently, when a user changes the title attribute of a wiki page it also implies changes to its URL. To ensure that old links still work OP saves the the old slug and redirects to the new one.
user\#3 and I belief that the current solution is prone to errors, for users hard to understand, and holds potential for conflicting URLs. It origines from an era before WYSIWYG wiki editors when linking was done manually in wiki syntax.
The new solution will always keep the page ID in the URL, which will stay the same regardless of how the title changes.
Implications:
- Linking should be assisted with a dialogue as fiddling around with page IDs is cumbersome.
- We probably need to keep the currently used URL redirection solution to not lose backlinks that are unreachable for our migration scripts (Third parties etc.).
Currently, when a user changes the title attribute of a wiki page it also implies changes to its URL. To ensure that old links still work OP saves the the old slug and redirects to the new one.
user\#3 and I belief that the current solution is prone to errors, for users hard to understand, and holds potential for conflicting URLs. It origines from an era before WYSIWYG wiki editors when linking was done manually in wiki syntax.
The new solution will always keep the page ID in the URL, which will stay the same regardless of how the title changes.
Implications:
- Linking should be assisted with a dialogue as fiddling around with page IDs is cumbersome.
- We probably need to keep the currently used URL redirection solution to not lose backlinks that are unreachable for our migration scripts (Third parties etc.).