Noodle over how pages could be connected to each other over time

[Mr0grog]

Mainly logging this here for future thinking/so it doesn’t get lost…

This is related to the idea that the URL of a “page” might shift over time. Are there other ways we might want to connect pages together over time without necessarily calling them the same, both in the the UI and in the data?

The https://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate → https://www.epa.gov/statelocalenergy shift is a good real-world use case for thinking about this.

[danielballan]

We'll need to think about this as a best-effort designation, as it's subject to judgement calls and ultimately serves the purpose of making changes comprehensible to humans.

Here's a thought: a given Page only ever has one URL, but it may reference a "parent" Page. I like this solution because it allows for a Page to have multiple "children". For example, an EPA Page from 2016 might have one child in https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/ and another in https://www.epa.gov/

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[Mr0grog]

Also good “idea” tag candidate.