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

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Tom Chance wrote:
> 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 spam or outdated ones the author wants removed).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 :)

I don't think that the articles themselves should necessarily be stored in a
database, but the "header" information could usefully be kept there.  It
would, of course, mean that this wouldn't be stored along with the body of
the article (think of the update issue raised above). That way, references,
links, assessments of validity and so on would be easily changable (they're
in a database after all), and the body of the article could be subject to a
CVS type version control system.

Paul

> --- 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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