Wikipage Changeset proposed for deletion

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 26 oct. 2012, at 00:59, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> Matt marked the wikipage ChangeSet
> 
>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangeSet
> 
> as proposed for deletion:
> 
>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangeSet?action=diff&rev2=40&rev1=39
> 
> (as a minor remark, he failed to comply with what's stated on the page
> WikiCleanup [1], which says in section 3.9 to also add the page to the
> category CategoryProposedDeletion)
> 
> WikiCleanup states in section 1 ("Goal"), that "duplication of book and
> help content" .. "probably doesn't makes sense to include in the wiki".
> 
> Looking at the history of the ChangeSet page
> 
>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangeSet?action=info
> 
> it was created by user "waste" on 2005-08-26 with the content:
> 
>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangeSet?action=recall&rev=1
> 
> If we look at the front page of the wiki [2], we see a link to
> BeginnersGuides [3] under the heading "Getting started".
> 
> The first link on the BeginnersGuides page links to the page
> UnderstandingMercurial [4], which "attempts to illustrate some of the
> basic concepts" (as noted on that page).
> 
> On UnderstandingMercurial, the first occurrence of the word "changeset"
> links to the page ChangeSet, which is now proposed for deletion.
> 
> Googling for the word "changeset" lists the ChangeSet wikipage as second
> position, right after the wikipedia article. I don't see any link to the
> "Mercurial Book".

You live in a google bubble. What you get when searching for something have no meaning for other people. I'm getting to the Mercurial wiki on very trivial unrelated sentence for example.

You should try to break this bubble when audit the "google rank" of our wiki page. Maybe by using tor ? Benoit or Augie will have better idea

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Pierre-Yves