Re: projects-old.gnome.org being discontinued

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 12:31 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Liam,
>
> no, I really meant projects-old.gnome.org which as I described on my
> original e-mail was the pre-2013 projects page we had running before
> transitioning to the new wiki.g.o based projects listing. 

Yes, i understood that. Sorry if i wasn't clear.

>  I believe the engagement team was looking
> into possible new ways to unify projects listing into one single
> view, not sure what's the status there though.

Then i'd suggest holding off until you know, because redirecting the
old page to a new mechanism would make the most sense. As i said,
there's lots of links to projects-old.gnome.org.

Liam

> cheers,
> Il giorno mer 5 dic 2018 alle ore 21:10 Liam R E Quin
> <liam holoweb net> ha scritto:
> > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:22 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > the projects-old website [1] was decided to be left around in
> > > 2013
> > > right after transitioning projects pages to the GNOME's wiki
> > > (projects.g.o is a vhost that contains a set of redirects since
> > > then)
> >
> > i think you mean projects.gnome.org, right?
> >
> > That seems to be a lot less complete, and also just has project
> > names
> > and not explanations. So there's (out of date) information being
> > lost.
> >
> > There are also a lot of external links to the page, so you'll break
> > a
> > lot of links (and, for what it's worth, hurt gnome.org's search
> > ranking
> > a little in the process). But this could be mitigated with an HTTP
> > redirect to a page telling people how to find what they might have
> > wanted.
> >
> > > for a short period of time while the transition was happening. I
> > > believe it's now a good time (after 5+ years!) to retire the
> > > former
> > > website all together.
> >
> > If it goes, it might be helpful to add short descriptions to
> > projects.gnome.org, although that would mean a bunch of work of
> > course.
> > The (current) wiki pages are not organized enough to make this a
> > question of easy scraping so maybe the answer is to automate
> > something
> > that grabs the page title from the linked pages, and encourage
> > project
> > maintaners to edit their wiki pages as needed?
> >
> > On the other hand it's fun exploring the page to find out what
> > things
> > are :)
> >
> > The new page is much better overall, even without descriptions,
> > because
> > of the division into categories.
> >
> > Liam (irc::ankh)
> >
> >
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