785402 - Convert normal Deki URLs to Kuma URLs in MDN documentation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

As Jean-Yves mentioned in bug 783535, MDN documentation still refers to Deki-style addresses. These links work, but require redirects, hurting our SEO.

For example, we should convert links like the this...

<a href="/en/HTML">

to this...

<a href="/en-US/docs/HTML">

Quoting Jean-Yves...

> We have a lot of internal links throughout the wiki with old URLs (missing
> the /Docs/ part, or with an old language code).
> 
> This means that following such a link need 1 or 2 REDIRECT (2 for English,
> Chinese or PT-BR). These HTTP requests are _serialized_ and take about 0.7s
> each in Europe (so about 1.4s for en-US pages!). Removing them are net gain
> in loading page.
> 
> (This should depend on our Find/Replace Tools I think, but didn't find the
> bug) Maybe we should create at the same time a {{
> localelink(/relative_url_past_the_docs_part/) }} template at the same time
> (so that we won't need to edit links when translating).

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.