Making changes to Wiki4D

[Walter Bright]

Jesse Phillips wrote:
> As stated in the "D wiki" post, I am planning to do major reorganization 
> of the prowiki content. In order to effectively do this I have to make a 
> lot of changes and would like some input on how I should handle them.
> 
> Brad, I take it that the replacement effort is a no go?
> 
> The process will take time to complete, I'd like to know how important it 
> is to keep access to all pages? I don't intend the final result to 
> contain every existing page or its content.
> 
> Input on how separating information about D1 vs D2 would be good. The 
> issue being a lot of content is shared but some of it is not.
> 
> The main question is, how important is authorship on a wiki? The problems 
> below show what I'm referring to.
> 
> Moving Pages:
> 
> I want to make a consistent hierarchy for the pages. I realize I can 
> reference the pages as they currently are, and many I will. The main one 
> I'm looking at is "NotesForProgrammersUsedTo" pages, and instead just 
> call it "ComingFrom" allowing for "ComingFrom/JavaLanguage."
> 
> I don't think you can move pages, so if I just copy the content into a 
> new page then I'd become the "author." I don't have a desire to reference 
> the old page, since that would be unclean, so what would be the 
> appropriate way to handle this?

The only real reason to track authorship is for legal reasons. If the 
history of the old pages is still there online, then this shouldn't be a 
big deal.

> 
> Moving Content:
> 
> Also related to the authorship problem is moving around sections of 
> content from one page to another.