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Revision as of 19:45, 17 January 2011

Archive_Test1 - begins a set of pages for testing the effects of moving pages to the Archive namespace

Results noted:

If a page is archived with a redirect in place, the page name survives, and the page automatically redirects.
Any links in such a page continue to be blue (active) links.
Because the original page name survives, it will always be counted in any DPL report.

When a page is archived without a redirect the page name is freed up, appears entirely as an empty page, reusable as any other empty page.
Any page that previously linked to it will see a red (empty page) link.
The link from the original page is therefore broken and it will be necessary to guess the URL or search for it.
Where pages are not likely to be needed much in future, such as the old-style translations, the advantage is that the pages that have been archived can easily be excluded from reports, giving more accurate results.

__NOINDEX__ on the page suppresses search spider visits and results in a new category, Category:Noindexed pages
Category:Noindexed pages is strange, though, as only one of this set of pages is included, yet all four bear the category statement.

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 * Where pages are not likely to be needed much in future, such as the old-style translations, the advantage is that the pages that have been archived can easily be excluded from reports, giving more accurate results.
-* <nowiki>__NOINDEX__</nowiki> on the page suppresses search spider visits and results in a new category, <nowiki>Category: Noindexed pages</nowiki>
+* <nowiki>__NOINDEX__</nowiki> on the page suppresses search spider visits and results in a new category, <nowiki>Category:Noindexed pages</nowiki>
+* <nowiki>Category:Noindexed pages</nowiki> is strange, though, as only one of this set of pages is included, yet all four bear the category statement.
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