[META] Many documentation / handbook URLs redirect to D7 content

Created on 23 February 2017, over 7 years ago
Updated 21 April 2024, 7 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Following a somewhat recent update to Drupal.org that attempted to create separate handbooks for D7 and D8, there are many problems with D8 documentation: #2855171: Documentation migration makes significant sections of the Drupal 8 handbook unnavigable or redirect to Drupal 7 docs β†’

In particular, though, many generic URLs once linked from core help hooks, etc. now redirect to Drupal 7-specific content. Example: #2854586: Stark's helptext link redirects to D7 theme guide β†’ We need to check and probably fix this on many or even most of the links in core.

In #25 πŸ› [META] Many documentation / handbook URLs redirect to D7 content Needs work eojthebrave posted a script that will get all the d.o links in core. It creates two CSV's one listing all the urls and the other the non 200 results. The results are in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oBEGziXaw1cXMqmwI-0yzNuvJIu5rwXE.... The script was run again in May 2021 and updated sheets uploaded.

Proposed resolution

Identify links to D7 docs in core, and fix them.

Remaining tasks

  1. Use the spreadsheet to find urls to change.
  2. For those that have a "7" in the redirected path, they are definitely wrong and need to either have the correct D8 docs identified, or have a documentation bug report filed that there are no D8 docs since the migration.
  3. Update the speadsheet with the changed URL so it is easy to find ones to change

Make a followup to convert links to a 'generic form' See #49.

User interface changes

Many changed strings as we fix URLs. Correct links

API changes

N/A

Data model changes

N/A

🌱 Plan
Status

Fixed

Version

11.0 πŸ”₯

Component
DocumentationΒ  β†’

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  • Needs backport to D7

    After being applied to the 8.x branch, it should be considered for backport to the 7.x branch. Note: This tag should generally remain even after the backport has been written, approved, and committed.

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