From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:32:39 +0000 (-0400) Subject: response X-Git-Tag: 2.67~19 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=020eb6f294346a3a5db5d04b7d14cb30ddd4bfaf;p=ikiwiki.git response --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/disabling_backlinks.mdwn b/doc/bugs/disabling_backlinks.mdwn index 9c31b6030..ba96a4e2b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/disabling_backlinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/disabling_backlinks.mdwn @@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ My first reading (and second and third) of this was that backlinks would be disa > improve the documentation for this. [[done]] --[[Joey]] -I notice that there is quite a bit of redundancy when both tags and backlinks are used extensively. On most pages, the set of links features in both categories is almost identical because a tag's index page is shown both as a tag link and as a backlink. Is there a way to improve that situation somehow? I realise that backlinks aren't generated when the tag index page refers to its contents by \[\[!map ...]], etc., but sometimes an auto-generated index is insufficient. +I notice that there is quite a bit of redundancy when both tags and +backlinks are used extensively. On most pages, the set of links features in +both categories is almost identical because a tag's index page is shown +both as a tag link and as a backlink. Is there a way to improve that +situation somehow? I realise that backlinks aren't generated when the tag +index page refers to its contents by \[\[!map ...]], etc., but sometimes an +auto-generated index is insufficient. --Peter + +> Um, if you're manually linking from the tag's page to each page so +> tagged, I think you have larger problems than tags and backlinks being +> the same. Like keeping that list of links up to date as tags are added +> and changed. --[[Joey]]