Duplicate Posts in the Fedora Magazine

[Mohammad Matini]

Greetings,

While looking at older articles on the Fedora Magazine, I found a number
of duplicate posts.

> From what I've seen so far, the duplicate posts are identical to
> the 
original posts, except they have different author names.
They also have identical URLs, with an added '-2' in the end.

The versions without the '-2' have more social media shares and
comments, although the comments are sometimes duplicated too.

I don't have an exact number for the duplicates, but I've found around
10 so far.

I wounder what the reason might be for the duplication, and what can be
done about it.

Some examples are,
http://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-select-and-set-default-applications-in-f...
http://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-select-and-set-default-applications-in-f...

http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25/
http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25-2/

http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-04-01/
http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-04-01-2/

http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-21-to-ship-the-3-16-linux-kernel-and-a-s...
http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-21-to-ship-the-3-16-linux-kernel-and-a-s...

Best regards,
Mohammad Matini

[Ryan Lerch]

On 04/05/2015 06:14 PM, Mohammad Matini wrote:
>  Greetings,
>
>  While looking at older articles on the Fedora Magazine, I found a number
>  of duplicate posts.
>
>   From what I've seen so far, the duplicate posts are identical to the
>  original posts, except they have different author names.
>  They also have identical URLs, with an added '-2' in the end.
>
>  The versions without the '-2' have more social media shares and
>  comments, although the comments are sometimes duplicated too.
>
>  I don't have an exact number for the duplicates, but I've found around
>  10 so far.
>
>  I wounder what the reason might be for the duplication, and what can be
>  done about it.
>
>  Some examples are,
>  http://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-select-and-set-default-applications-in-f...
>  http://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-select-and-set-default-applications-in-f...
>
>  http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25/
>  http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25-2/
>
>  http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-04-01/
>  http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-04-01-2/
>
>
> http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-21-to-ship-the-3-16-linux-kernel-and-a-s...
>
> http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-21-to-ship-the-3-16-linux-kernel-and-a-s...
>
>  Best regards,
>  Mohammad Matini
>  
Thanks for bringing this up Mohammad!

I had noticed this too, once we started putting the related articles on 
the right -- i had been deleting them as i cam across them, and thought 
i had got them all -- but will now double check!

I think these are artifacts from an import a while back that duplicated 
the posts. :(

--ryanlerch

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 08:20:00PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>  I had noticed this too, once we started putting the related articles
>  on the right -- i had been deleting them as i cam across them, and
>  thought i had got them all -- but will now double check!
>  I think these are artifacts from an import a while back that
>  duplicated the posts. :( 
Hmmm. Let's make sure not to break external incoming links....

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Ryan Lerch]

On 04/06/2015 08:27 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 08:20:00PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> > I had noticed this too, once we started putting the related articles
> > on the right -- i had been deleting them as i cam across them, and
> > thought i had got them all -- but will now double check!
> > I think these are artifacts from an import a while back that
> > duplicated the posts. :(
>  Hmmm. Let's make sure not to break external incoming links....
>  
most of these got duplicated a while after they were originally posted 
(and most of the duplicates are articles that are quite old) -- so it 
should really not have many important incoming links to those.

--ryanlerch

[Chris Roberts]

I am getting back from vacation, I will look into this. It was more than likely from the
import when we moved the location of the site. 

- Chris Roberts
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Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 11:09 PM
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Cc: Matthew Miller
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posts in the Fedora Magazine

On 04/06/2015 08:27 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 08:20:00PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> > I had noticed this too, once we started putting the related articles
> > on the right -- i had been deleting them as i cam across them, and
> > thought i had got them all -- but will now double check!
> > I think these are artifacts from an import a while back that
> > duplicated the posts. :(
>  Hmmm. Let's make sure not to break external incoming links....
>  
most of these got duplicated a while after they were originally posted
(and most of the duplicates are articles that are quite old) -- so it
should really not have many important incoming links to those.

--ryanlerch
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