handling deleted pages (was:Re: [pmwiki-users] EmacsPmWikiMode?? Another Newb question...:))

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-02-13  11:18 AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>Note that RecentChanges and AllRecentChanges are
>not created using (:pagelist:).  They're just
>wiki pages (like any other page) that are updated
>whenever a page is changed.  So, when a page is
>deleted, the links that exist on RecentChanges
>become links to non-existent pages.  (This is as it
>should be, so that people can see that pages have
>been deleted and review things accordingly.)

Would it not make more sense if the record inserted into RecentChanges for 
a deleted page simply named the page, but did not make it a link?

Consider that clicking on the link on the current mode does not take you to 
the deleted page, it takes you to a new page with the same name. I can't 
imagine wanting to create a new blank page, but I can imagine trying to 
restore the deleted page. The only way to do that (now) is for an admin to 
rename the deleted file.

With a non-linked page name on RecentChanges, users can see that the page 
was changed and some might even conclude that it was deleted since there is 
no link to it.


Neil

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