404 on events page because of missing https in airtable entries

Description

there are missing https:// in the connected airtable in the events table for listing events on page: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/

option a

fixing data in the airtable

option b

add a check for the https to the link in www/src/components/events/event.js

Link 1

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/karunyahacks.org

BULD HACKATHON — November 17, 2019 (Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)

Link 2

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/nosk.ncit.edu.np

Software Freedom Day — September 21, 2019 (Balkumari, Lalitpur, Nepal)

Link 3

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/wizathon.in

Software Freedom Day — September 21, 2019 (Balkumari, Lalitpur, Nepal)

Link 4

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/www.startupweekend.com

Startup Weekend Youth Edition — November 15, 2019 (Dubai,United Arab Emirates)

Steps to reproduce

go to page: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/

Expected result

no error

Actual result

error 404

Environment

related Issues

#19267 Add link check To Gatsby Docs

[gillkyle]

I updated the http://arcs.ieeecsvit.com site and removed entries for urls that were resulting in 404s if they were already past so it doesn’t negatively affect the page’s SEO.

I also updated the airtable request form with more context to instruct users to include the scheme (http or https) as well as an example so that hopefully most won’t input a broken link in the future.

I think those measures should allow us to close this for now. If it’s still coming up in the future we can enforce better validation but for now I think this gets the job done. Thanks for the help @muescha!

[gillkyle]

Thanks for the research investigating this and the ping @muescha! I’ll go in now and update the links missing the http:// protocol on Airtable. I do like the idea of finding a better check for urls!

update: just went through and corrected the links for those that were missing http or https by navigating to those sites. I’m guessing the malformed links have come from events changing titles and urls.