Aliases
I changed two links in the sysadmin wiki, to point to Alejandro Forero Cuervo and to Nelson Castillo. Now I think that ALL links to someone should point to his/her activity log. Don't you agree?
I've seen aliases in the wikipedia. For instante, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot.org.
You could use a special file "aliases" which would hold aliases to special links. So when a page which is listed in the aliases file is requested, svnwiki would hand the referenced page.
I wouldn't know what to do if the file exists :( Perhaps you could show an intermediate page which explains that the page exists, but it's also an alias to another page.
It could be something like
Nelson Castillo : arhuaco | Nelson Castillo Izquierdo | Nelson
What do you think?
I'd like to try to implement this.
– Arhuaco
Yes, I think this is something we really need. This should probably be done by making the alias pages refer to the destination page. To be honest, I have already partially implemented this, using the svnwiki:redirect-target and svnwiki:redirect-time Subversion properties. But yes, I need to document it somewhere.
– Azul
This has been implemented as symbolic links.
There is still a bug when you create an alias for a directory (rathern than an alias for a file), but I'll get to fixing that eventually.
– Azul, 2007-01-25
Ok, I fixed this fully.
Please populate your wikis with aliases and be happy.
– Azul, 2007-04-01
Last update: 2007-05-13 (Rev 11270)