[jira] [Commented] (MAHOUT-804) Each page in Mahout's Confluence Wiki has 2 URLs, with differing page styles and search behaviours

["Dan Brickley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dan Brickley commented on MAHOUT-804:
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The .html version has a link for 'browse space', e.g. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/recentlyupdated.action?key=MAHOUT ... this gives 'recently changed', 'a-z' and tree views of the wiki content. Both versions have basic add/edit navigation. The /confluence/ version has menu items for adding also a blog post, 'bookmark', 'gliffy diagram' (which takes me into some fancy web-based image editor).

The /confluence/ version also has options for adding attachments and comments. If those can't be found by folk landing at .html versions from search engines, that's a bit unfortunate.

> Each page in Mahout's Confluence Wiki has 2 URLs, with differing page styles and search behaviours
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>
>                 Key: MAHOUT-804
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-804
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Website
>            Reporter: Dan Brickley
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: atlassian, confluence, wiki
>
> There are two styles of URL in circulation for URLs into Mahout's Wiki (presumably an Apache-wide configuration issue):
> https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/svd-singular-value-decomposition.html vs
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/SVD+-+Singular+Value+Decomposition
> They appear to be the self-same confluence 3.4.9 installation (or its raw filetree). Each has a different search box at the top of the page. The version with 'confluence/' in the path does a confluence search, and returns similar URLs as results. The one with '.html' suffixes does a domain-constrained Google search. 
> Despite markup canonicalising the confluence variant, ie.  <link rel="canonical" href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/SVD+-+Singular+Value+Decomposition"> appearing in the confluence pages, it seems the Google search results typically throw people into the other version of the Wiki site.
> This is all mildly confusing, mildly annoying but overall mostly harmless. It could be having some negative impact on google rank & suchlike, since incoming links will be split between the two styles. Maybe this could be passed along to the Wiki admins? 
> Which version does the Mahout team consider canonical URLs (for external links etc)?

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