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Re: Debian documentation permalinks



On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:20:24 +0100
Philip Ashmore <contact@philipashmore.com> wrote:

> On 30/05/12 12:29, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> >  On 05/26/2012 09:09 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote:
> >>  On 05/26/2012 06:53 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote:
> >>>  On 05/25/2012 10:03 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote:
> >>>>  Hi there.
> >>>>
> >>>>  First, here's what I'm talking about -
> >>>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink
> >>>>  Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't offer permalinks itself, so
> >>>>  hopefully the above link won't "rot".
> >>>
> >>>  And here's the permalink to the above article, as it was when the
> >>>  preceding post was made:
> >>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Permalink&oldid=483438630
> >>>  Or, if you prefer links that don't indicate where they're really
> >>> going: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=483438630
> >>
> >>  I'm happy and sad with this.
> >>  Happy that Wikipedia provides permalink support.
> >>  Sad that it didn't document it in its article about permalinks.
> >>
> >>  Is there documentation on this feature somewhere?
> >>
> >>  Permalinks, along with the fact that MediaWiki is free GPLv2,
> >> makes a compelling argument for moving Debian documentation to
> >> MediaWiki.
> >
> >  Which documentation are you talking about? Most official
> > documentation should have a fixed URL.
> >
> >  If you are talking about the wiki: retrieving a fixed version from
> >  moinmoin is the same as in mediawiki.
> >
> >  So I can't see a useful argument here, only FUD trying to talk
> > people into using Mediawiki.
> >
> Hi there and thanks for your feedback.
> 
> I'm talking about the fact that Debian has mail archives that may
> include links to documentation that has changed since the mail was
> written, possibly rendering the mail thread misleading or nonsensical.
> 
> Any documentation system that can provide a means to refer to a
> specific version (permalinks) would be better than what's there now.

Could you give examples of things lacking permalinks?
thanks,
kk

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