On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:12 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:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Clean_up_URLs
I'm looking forward to your input!
<
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#URL_like_-_example.com.2FPa…
"*Warning:* this method may create an unstable URL structure and leave some
page names unusable on your wiki. See Manual:Wiki in site root
directory<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_direct…ry>.
Please see the article Cool URIs don't
change<http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI>and take a few minutes to
devise a stable URL structure for your web site
before hopping willy-nilly into rewrites into the URL root."
- Ryan