On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Craig James wrote:
>> By using "current" and encouraging people to link to that, we could quickly change the Google pagerank so that a
searchfor Postgres would turn up the most-recent version of documentation.
>
> How do you propose to encourage people to do that? If I had a good answer to that question, I'd already be executing
onit.
When people link to a page, they link to the URL they copy and paste out of the browser address bar.
If http://postgresql.org/docs/9.0/* were to 302 redirect to http://postgresql.org/docs/current/* while 9.0 is the
currentrelease (and similarly for 9.1 and so on) I suspect we'd find many more links to current and fewer links to
specificversions after a year or two.
> I've made a habit of doing that when writing articles on the wiki, which hopefully themselves become popular and then
elevatethose links (all of the ones http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server for example point to
current). I don't know how to target "people who link to the PostgreSQL manual" beyond raising awareness of the issue
periodicallyon these lists, like I did on this thread.
Cheers,
Steve