Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Linking to particular article?

[Tom Chance]

There would be two solutions to broken internal links:

1) Don't allow the removal of articles. I think this
is a good option in most cases (excepting cases like
spam or outdated ones the author wants removed).

2) Every time you remove an article, you search the
database/collection of articles to find any references
to it and remove those too. A simple perl script could
do this quickly if the articles were held in a proper
database like mySQL :)

Tom Chance


--- Christopher Mahan <address@hidden> wrote:
> If this is the case, what happens when articles that
> were linked to are 
> removed, do we end up with "bad links" just like on
> the web? Could the 
> authors of the articles that link to the doomed
> article be notified?
> Does this mean that an author would be also
> maintaining his/her article?
> 
> This I feel would be a burden on authors.
> 
> My solution would be that articles that are linked
> to should not be removed, 
> but placed in the "Seldom Used"
> database/folder/storage.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Linking to particular
> article?
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:31:37 -0000
> 
> On 22 Jan 2001, at 18:00, Christopher Mahan wrote:
> 
>  > Could the author of an article easily link to
> another article by
>  > reference number, for example, so as to allow for
> "hyperlinks" within
>  > the encyclopedia, independent of the search
> capability?
> 
> Yes. I don't think anyones would oppose such a
> system of linking ,
> so I think it can be taken as an assumed capability.
> 
> Imran
> 
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