<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It's a shame that the main documentation does not redirect to the versioned documentation. It would be nice it the only pages bookmarked would be <div><a href="http://matplotlib.org/majorversion/examples/." target="_blank">matplotlib.org/majorversion/<wbr>examples/.</a>.. that way we would get the best of both worlds imho. If we can find a simple way of generating redirects as Adrien suggests that sounds reasonable too. I think we should try hard to find a way to move the pylab examples to a folders with a more meaningful name as well as deleting a fair number of examples</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Somewhat related to deleting examples, do we have any kind of analytics on our website frequency usage? something like google analytics. It could help us see what people are using in our documentation.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jens</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 08:32 <a href="mailto:vincent.adrien@gmail.com" target="_blank">vincent.adrien@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:vincent.adrien@gmail.com" target="_blank">vincent.adrien@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Thomas,<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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I guess the less imaginative solution may be a simple page referencing the URLs that have changed. Something as simple as:<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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| Former URL | Current URL |<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
|-----------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---|--------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>----------|<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
| [a_random_pyplot_example](<a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/a_random_pyplot_example.html" rel="noreferrer" class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg" target="_blank">http<wbr>://matplotlib.org/examples/<wbr>api/a_random_pyplot_example.<wbr>html</a>) | [a_random_example_pyplot](<a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/pyplot/a_random_pyplot_example.html" rel="noreferrer" class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg" target="_blank">http<wbr>://matplotlib.org/examples/<wbr>pyplot/a_random_pyplot_<wbr>example.html</a>) |<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
| ... | ... |<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
| [a_deleted_example_pyplot](<a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/an_deprecated_example.html" rel="noreferrer" class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg" target="_blank">htt<wbr>p://matplotlib.org/examples/<wbr>api/an_deprecated_example.html</a><wbr>) | This example was deleted |<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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which would then be referenced on the main page (maybe in the “Documentation” section, as the links for the previous docs.)<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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My 2 cents,<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
Adrien<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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Le 13/02/2017 à 06:20, Thomas Caswell a écrit :<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
> Folks,<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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> The examples have been getting a lot of attention recently (much credit<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
> to Nelle who is leading that effort) which is great! However I am a bit<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
> worried about moving/renaming examples as it will break peoples bookmarks.<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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> How much do we care about that (I may be being overly worried/cautious<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
> here)? What are our options for leaving bread-crumbs / forwards for people?<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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> Tom<br class="m_5598282663562434544gmail_msg">
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