Re: [Opensc-devel] OpenSC has a public relations problem

[Douglas E. E. <dee...@an...>]

On 8/29/2013 3:08 AM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 2013/8/28 Douglas E. Engert <dee...@an...>:
>> We keep saying in responses to e-mails statements like:
>>    "The project do not use opensc-project.org any more.
>>     Read https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/OpenSC-Services"
>>
>> But if an ordinary users Googles for OpenSC subjects
>> a reference to github may not even show up in the first 100
>> responses.
>>
>> This continues to lead users to the old pages and the project
>> appears to be dead!
>>
>> For example Google for:
>>    Getting started with OpenSC
>> shows https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/GetStarted
>> Last updated 2 years ago.
>>
>> But Google with it in quotes: "Getting started with OpenSC"
>> and github is first.
>> https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/Getting-started-with-OpenSC
>> Updated 8 months ago.
>> (Don't ask me why Google does this, it just does.)
>>
>> One way to help users find the up to date pages would be to add
>> to every page on the old
>>    https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki
>>
>> some box saying the project has moved to github,
>> and the Wiki can be found at:
>> https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki
>
> I updated the wiki page above.
> I do not want to edit _every_ wiki pages at
> https://www.opensc-project.org/ That is too much work.

Does the wiki have a way to put a header on every page?
That could say project moved to https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/

Not only do search engines put us low, older e-mail archives
with have URLs pointing to www.opensc-project.org

Any way to have the web server redirect users to the new
Wiki?



>
> Thanks for the reminder.
>
> Bye
>

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