On 2013-09-16 7:12 PM, "Gabriel Wicke" <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
while tinkering with a RESTful content API I was reminded of an old pet
peeve of mine: The URLs we use in Wikimedia projects are relatively long
and ugly. I believe that we now have the ability to clean this up if we
want to.
It would be nice to
* drop the /wiki/ prefix
https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo instead of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
* use simple action urls
https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history instead of
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=history
The details of this proposal are discussed in the following RFC:
I'm looking forward to your input!
Gabriel
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Well I'm not particularly fond of this idea (probably because im stuck in
my ways more than anything else), I do think that making the
en.wikipedia.org/foo be an instant http redirect instead of "did you
mean/redirecting in 5 seconds" message we currently have might make sense.
Additionally there is some security issues in ie6 when doing foo?action=raw
if I recall.
-bawolff