[okfn-help] OKCon 2010 post-event info has disappeared from website

[Rufus Pollock]

On 22 August 2010 23:08, Sara Wingate Gray <sara.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> On the OKCon 'current' page: http://okfn.org/okcon/
>
> "OKCon 2010 has now happened. For further details and documentation please see the post-event information page".
>
> "post-event information page" - this text is a LINK, which has the URL: http://okfn.org/okcon/2010/after/
>
> However, when you click this link it takes you to: http://okfn.org/okcon/2007-2/after/
> which is for 2007 OKCon.

Yes, a big bug. I did start looking at this the moment you sent it
through (should have said)!

> Any ideas what happened to all the 2010 post event info page: It had downloads, links to other people's blog posts about OKCon etc.?

After quite a bit of scratching of head and digging around I found
these tickets:

<http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5305>
<http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11917>
<http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14238>
<... many many more - google for "wordpress numerical page slugs">

To summarize: wordpress does not allow page slugs which are numerical
such as '2010', '2008' etc. It therefore converts these to '2008-2'
etc. Not very useful!

The first wordpress ticket (2y old) leads to a plugin by a wordpress dev:

<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-numeric-stubs/>

If you read the guys web page you find out that this doesn't work
properly in wp 3.0. My guess this is due to changes related to
<http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11917> (done 6 months ago).
Specifically if you try changing the slug in the wordpress web
interface it will not let you set '2010' -- it will keep changing it
on save to '2010-2'!

*However* it you manually set page slugs in the db by hand it turns
out this will work (something, btw i tried before finding the plugin
and does not work without the plugin -- w/o the plugin you visiting
okcon/2010 would show you the okcon/ page!)

> We're getting ready to send out the OKF newsletter with a mention of OKCon and link but I really don't want to point people to an incorrect/no info page...

It's back up thanks to my efforts above ;)

> I will include the internet archive URL in the newsletter <http://www.archive.org/details/OKCon2010> which has an OKCon page with downloads of presentations in the meantime if this isn't possible to fix before the newsletter goes out.

Better to point to the web page now it is back!

Rufus