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diff --git a/doc/bugs/RecentChanges_links_to_deleted_pages.mdwn b/doc/bugs/RecentChanges_links_to_deleted_pages.mdwn index ded3e1022..0eaeafb0c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/RecentChanges_links_to_deleted_pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/RecentChanges_links_to_deleted_pages.mdwn @@ -1 +1,15 @@ -[[RecentChanges]] should not link to pages that are being deleted. For as example, see the change with the title 'add news item for ikiwiki 2.60' which includes the deletion of "news/version 2.52". Maybe it should be made clear in RecentChanges that the change to the file is it being deleted. +[[RecentChanges]] should not link to pages that are being deleted. For as +example, see the change with the title 'add news item for ikiwiki 2.60' +which includes the deletion of "news/version 2.52". Maybe it should be made +clear in RecentChanges that the change to the file is it being deleted. + +> It needs to link to the deleted page so that you can recreate the page if +> desired. +> +> The link is not of the normal form used for a link to a nonexistant page, +> instead it redirects through a CGI. This is done because updating the +> links would require rebuilding all change pages each time, which would be +> 100x as slow as the current method. +> +> I don't feel that being 100 times faster at the expense of a marginally +> inconsistent, but still usable interface is a bug. --[[Joey]] [[done]] |