Provide a migration page from the old single page to new split reference pages format

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the old reference URL and the split chapter pages, using the tuple-types example to understand the required anchor mapping. Inventory every anchor from the old single-page reference and determine how the migration page should direct each one to its new location. Done means old links lead to the corresponding moved section instead of a dead or misleading page.

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Enhancement Organization

Since Rust Reference underwent the split by chapters, all the links in the wild, like in answers on StackOverflow, are effectively dead, because they don't lead to the relevant parts of Reference anymore.

I realise the problems of handling url fragments, but couldn't a migration page be generated? Like http://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html#tuple-types should go to a place in the page which says "This section has been moved to https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types.html#tuple-types", and so on for every anchor in the old reference page.

This would be much more helpful, as searching whatever chapters possibly contain the relevant data manually isn't quite easy.

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