[pydotorg-www] Wiki renames don't provide redirects for the old pages

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 05.02.2013 10:41, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 05.02.2013 03:06, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>> I don't remember exactly, but ISTM previously Python wiki set a redirect
>>> for the old name if a page was renamed. Now I had to fix all broken links
>>> manually.
>>
>> I don't think that was ever the case. The usual way to deal with this
>> is to add a redirect instruction to the old page. See
>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/WikiFrequentlyAskedQuestions
> 
> 
> The wiki correctly inserts #pragme redirected from into the new page
> content. It should be possible to turn on the option to insert redirect to
> the old name. I am not a Moin expert to know if such option exists though.
> This page lists a workaround -
> http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/RenamePageUpdatesLinkedPages

There is no such option in moin for the reasons given on the page.

Please manually add those redirect pages, if you think they are needed
(e.g. because some external sites link to the old names).

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