[Matplotlib-devel] moving examples

[Nelle Varoquaux]

> It's a shame that the main documentation does not redirect to the
> versioned documentation. It would be nice it the only pages bookmarked
> would be
> matplotlib.org/majorversion/examples/... that way we would get the best
> of both worlds imho. If we can find a simple way of generating redirects as
> Adrien suggests that sounds reasonable too. I think we should try hard to
> find a way to move the pylab examples to a folders with a more meaningful
> name as well as deleting a fair number of examples
>

Somewhat related to deleting examples, do we have any kind of analytics on
our website frequency usage? something like google analytics. It could help
us see what people are using in our documentation.


>
>
> Jens
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 08:32 vincent.adrien at gmail.com <
> vincent.adrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I guess the less imaginative solution may be a simple page referencing
>> the URLs that have changed. Something as simple as:
>>
>> |                     Former URL                                     |
>>                                  Current URL
>>                                                |
>> |-----------------------------------------------------------
>> ---------------------------------|--------------------------
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>> | [a_random_pyplot_example](http://matplotlib.org/examples/
>> api/a_random_pyplot_example.html) | [a_random_example_pyplot](http
>> ://matplotlib.org/examples/pyplot/a_random_pyplot_example.html) |
>> |                                         ...
>>                     |
>>      ...                                         |
>> | [a_deleted_example_pyplot](http://matplotlib.org/examples/
>> api/an_deprecated_example.html)  |                                  This
>> example was deleted                                             |
>>
>> which would then be referenced on the main page (maybe in the
>> “Documentation” section, as the links for the previous docs.)
>>
>> My 2 cents,
>> Adrien
>>
>> Le 13/02/2017 à 06:20, Thomas Caswell a écrit :
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > The examples have been getting a lot of attention recently (much credit
>> > to Nelle who is leading that effort) which is great!  However I am a bit
>> > worried about moving/renaming examples as it will break peoples
>> bookmarks.
>> >
>> > How much do we care about that (I may be being overly worried/cautious
>> > here)? What are our options for leaving bread-crumbs / forwards for
>> people?
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> >
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