I had considered doing this. However this would need around 2000 redirects and:
It would require a major re-write of some very old Python code to do this.
Also, if you wanted links to the same example in the new site, some examples in the new site have been renamed and others have been moved. This would entail a lot of extra work and maintenance tracking the links.
Additionally, I hope that by not having redirects, the new site will rise to prominence in google searches.
On the last point if you search for āvtk sphere exampleā the first links I get are still for the original VTK Wiki site! Not even Billās site.
It might be best if the examples on the old site just link back to the main page, so that people know why the links donāt work. If a noindex meta tag is added to the old pages, the search engines should eventually forget about them. For the wiki pages, __NOINDEX__ can be added to the wiki text.
Unfortunately Iām not aware of how the website is constructed. I was imagining a directory tree of static html files, where a unix āfindā command could replace each page with a generic redirect page.
It looks like wiki page deletion requires a wiki administrator. A list of all wiki example pages is here.
Which neither redirects to or makes mention of the new home of the examples. In the edit history excerpt above one can see references to Billās GitHub page. Copy-pasting that URL one arrives at:
Yep, youāre right. I was about to suggest putting in some clever actual HTTP redirects to usher it on, but see it was discussed earlier in the thread, with valid reasons against it.
Thanks again, patience is the medicine of the day.
