From ef3021c403b1d5545e138af913b1ef9be7eed449 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:14:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] web commit by BradRoberts --- doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn index 8173953cf..29ed88edb 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn @@ -9,3 +9,15 @@ Anyway to consider implementing **rename/move/delete** ? I certainly lack the s Thanks again to [Joey](http://kitenet.net/~joey) for putting ikiwiki together. I love the program. *[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)=* + +---- + +The MediaWiki moving/renaming mechanism is pretty nice. It's easy to get a list of pages that point to the current page. When renaming a page it sticks a forwarding page in the original place. The larger the size of the wiki the more important organization tools become. + +I see the need for: + +* a new tool to mine incoming links to a given page +* a new type of file to represent a forwarding page +* a rename tool that can, at a minimum, move the existing page to the new name and optionally drop a forwarding page. If not unreasonably difficult, optionally rewrite incoming links to the new location. + +Brad \ No newline at end of file -- 2.44.0