FW: Proposal to redirect w3.org/cg/* to older w3.org/community/ pages

I think it's a good idea to eliminate the new community group page and stick with the old one as Ian proposes.
New: https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/voiceinteraction/
Old: https://www.w3.org/community/voiceinteraction/

I know I have found the new page confusing myself and I think the old one is sufficient.
Comments?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2026 08:50
> To: public-council@w3.org
> Subject: Proposal to redirect w3.org/cg/* to older w3.org/community/ pages
> 
> Dear CG Program Community Group,
> 
> We recently heard that some members of the community are confused by the fact that each CG
> (e.g., the Credentials CG) has two home pages:
> 
> * One that is part of the new W3C site design
>   Example: https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/credentials/
> 
> * The original site for the Community Group that uses WordPress for a blog and other services:
>   Example: https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/
> 
> To reduce the confusion we propose to remove one of the sites. At the current time there is
> some functionality available from the WordPress sites that is not (yet) available in the new W3C
> site design, including:
> 
>  - Links to publications
>  - The ability of the CG to change its chairs without staff intervention
>  - An activity “graph” under the group description.
>  - A “Publish” link for Chairs to register CG reports in the system.
> 
> After discussion with the Systems Team we concluded that it would be simpler at this time to
> redirect URLs for the “new” pages to the original WordPress pages. Thus, for example:
> 
>   https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/credentials/participants/ ->
> https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/participants
> 
> Only a few redirects would be necessary for each CGs, and there should be no loss of
> functionality as a result of the redirects. (We will need to make links to CG calendars available
> through the WordPress sites.)
> 
> In the future we are likely to revisit the question, but at this time, given other priority actions
> related to CGs (notably the specification
> redesign) we propose to take this approach.
> 
> If you have any questions or concerns about this proposal, please let us know before 8 April.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ian and Dom
> 
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> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> https://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel: +1 917 450 8783
> 
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