Hi,
How can I change the obvious flaw regarding the first one, which is considered a requested article, but is just a link to a track and trace system of South Africa's postal service and thus appears in 62 articles.
The reason this link is showing up, is that on all those 61 pages, it's been entered without the protocol (without "http://"), and so they're treated as relative internal links, to non-existing pages. I just fixed the link for . 60 similar fixes to go.
Also, checking another one a bit further down (Orleans): a requested article and supposed to have an empty link in 5 articles, amongst which are New Orleans, Louisiana and the New Orleans airport...in none of those can I find the empty link, which would mean a requested article right??
Huh, weird.
When I go to the , I get the following list: , , , , . I didn't check them all, but those I did check indeed have those links.
[ 15-Aug-2014, at 01:41 by Sander ]
How can I change the obvious flaw regarding the first one, which is considered a requested article, but is just a link to a track and trace system of South Africa's postal service and thus appears in 62 articles.
The reason this link is showing up, is that on all those 61 pages, it's been entered without the protocol (without "http://"), and so they're treated as relative internal links, to non-existing pages. I just fixed the link for . 60 similar fixes to go.
Also, checking another one a bit further down (Orleans): a requested article and supposed to have an empty link in 5 articles, amongst which are New Orleans, Louisiana and the New Orleans airport...in none of those can I find the empty link, which would mean a requested article right??
Huh, weird.
When I go to the , I get the following list: , , , , . I didn't check them all, but those I did check indeed have those links.
Thanks, work to do then..
Odd, I guessed I made the link to the postal track and trace system and just copied the url. Sometimes url's don't contain the "http://" part anymore, so must have copied it directly and expected it to be ok.
With the Orleans article: I see what I did wrong: I clicked on "Orleans" itself and got 5 other ones, when clicking the ''5" it works indeed.
Cheers, will check it out further and see if I can add some more article with requests.
Mike
Hey Mike, I think you're right about getting rid of the "Discuss" section. It's better to post any discussions in the forum. Been meaning to do this for a while actually.
Fixed a few more of those articles too, but then I noticed that page being linked to seems to be all on its own.
The main domain http://sms.postoffice.co.za returns an "Under Construction" message and the page itself doesn't really have any information on it. Should it be linked to at all from these articles?
Huh, indeed. Weird. Phishing page? Hmm, no, been registered since 1997, and the www domain exists otherwise. http://www.postoffice.co.za/tools/trackandtrace.html might be a better page? Except that ends up pointing to http://globaltracktrace.ptc.post/gtt.web/ for "international" parcels.
I guess what I/we can do is just skip the link and mention the fact there is a track and trace system. Seems redundant anyway, as most postal services in countries nowadays have a system like that.
Cheers
BTW: just checked and the link seems ok right? I opened te url and got the page where you can enter number for track and trace on the south african post website..
[ 17-Aug-2014, at 08:36 by Utrecht ]
Yeah, that page itself seems okay; but the rest of the website sms.postoffice.co.za is completely empty (no other pages on that domain), which is weird.
You computer geeks amaze me. I'm in awe how you keep this working.
Cheers,
Terry
Hey Mike, I think you're right about getting rid of the "Discuss" section. It's better to post any discussions in the forum. Been meaning to do this for a while actually.
Recently there is an explosion of spam over there, just got one with around 20 or so 'questions'. Better close it soon...
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