Board Thread:The Scriptorium/@comment-206.123.250.91-20140402145622/@comment-24459124-20140402155822

Hi Super Dave, and welcome!

Personally, I feel that as an information resource, the HabitRPG wiki does a disservice to its users if anyone gets a 404 for a page where the wiki has historic knowledge of where they should be going.

Sadly, maintaining redirects on wikia isn't nearly as simple/obtrusive as small symbolic links on a filesystem or an apache config, but I think the overhead on pages such as Special:AllPages or the mental overhead of knowing that a number of pages are just redirects is worth getting people to where they want/need to go.

While changing the link on a webpage is easy, changing all external links isn't necessarily easy to accomplish. You have immutable forum posts, such as in the Tavern (which, granted, is temporary), and software with documentation links to the wiki. Some of that software may require deployment, such as HabitRPG, or it could be non-open source and potentially lacks a regular update cycle (perhaps some third-party integration apps/mobile apps).