Links to standards specs broken?

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:16 +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 16:12, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> > Don't know if this is right alias ...
> >
> > Have a look at these pages:
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fcolorscheme_2dspec
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fwm_2dspec
> >
> > Links to all spec documents seem to be broken.
>
> Is anyone working on this? I would also like to have the original links 
> working again, (e.g. http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/) because 
> those URLs have been used in various documents referring to these specs.
> Also links like http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd 
> give 404s at the moment.
> 
> The current state of the website hurst the credibility of freedesktop.org 
> IMHO.

I would suggest a standards.freedesktop.org subsite, which hosts all of
these, with redirects as appropriate.  I do not have the time to do
these, so if anyone wants to contribute to this effort and help make
fd.o a site that can be taken seriously again, please contact me.