820912 - When moving pages, update links on the pages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Currently, when you move pages, links to subpages are not getting updated. They should be, to reduce load times for those pages due to redirects.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is now fairly urgent. We are moving a *lot* of stuff as we do our reorg. There will be thousands of pages (in fact, I expect it will be well over 15,000 pages) moved over the coming weeks.

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This bug is about when moving a page and its subpages, in particular. When moving a tree of pages, links among those pages should be getting updated.

Comment 3

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

I think we redirect from old_page to new_page whenever a move happens, so no pages should break when a page is moved. Redirects are less-than-ideal, though, so it might be good to do this at some point.

Comment 4

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

We do redirect, yes, but redirects slow the site down, and we're accumulating a *lot* of redirects during our reorg work.

Comment 5

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

See the following for some work we talked about including here:

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872593#c1
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872593#c6
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872593#c8

Comment 6

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