Forum:Old pages deleted, no new pages to replace them

On my own wiki (and on several others) I've seen that people have MainPage templates that include a link to Special:Activeusers, but that special page has been pulled by Wikia. Is this page going to be replaced at some point (maybe after some sort of upgrade is finished with)? Or do we need to get people to go around fixing up templates that seem to have automatically dumped Special:Activeusers onto the homepage of wikis?

The same applies to most of the help pages. I had them pulled from my wiki last year, but the new shared help doesn't work. I either get red links, or links to pages on Central Wiki that look like they point at shared help, but actually are redlinks too.

Is there any chance that, when Wikia is going to delete pages that have been included in templates, that they can ask someone to program a bot that goes around and fixes any broken links that the changes create?

And if the shared help is going to take a long time to work, is there any chance that a bot can restore the old unshared help, so that Wikia can take as much time as they need to fix the shared help?

I've got no problems with Wiki evolving - I want it to evolve, but I've had broken links for about 6 months and that really should be enough time to get the new system working, or roll back to the old one. David Shepheard 19:08, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Shared help not working is an active bug, its being worked on. As for Special:Activeusers, we can look into making this an alias to the new Special:ListUsers as it does now have some of the same type of data, would that work? so that any old links to it is not a redlink. Though, there would be confusion for people looking for the real active users page. There are no plans to go through all of Wikia and bot out links to thinks just because they got removed at a latter date. If there is an active community there, they will notice and take note of it on their own, making what ever change they deem needed. If the wiki is dead/abandoned, then no one will notice that redlink (ala if a tree falls in the forest...) --Uberfuzzy 20:29, 26 April 2009 (UTC)


 * For me the change was rather abrupt more taking in consideration it was an old special page, the best would be that wikia implements a policy where they use a "soft redirect" where it says something like This Special page has been deprecated by "name of the new special page or reason". Please go back and update the link on the page since this message will be remove DATE. and keep it for a time frame of 6 months to be sure most people are aware. Redirects are nice but uninformative more when you are planing on removing them. --
 * i do belive that spec:Activeusers has been not active for a long time now. the name was maintained a redirect to spec:listusers for a while (theres a whole other forum thread about where it went somewhere around here). most often, these thing arent really "planned" to be removed, they tend to go away when we do major version upgrades. The natural course of upgrading tends to breaking things, and that sucks, but we cant forever worry about making everything that ever was still working. the requirement of backward compatibility only reaches so far back. --Uberfuzzy 23:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)