Am 11.06.2011 05:45, schrieb K. Peachey:
Eww no, shortcuts should be avoided where possible, they are basically
pointless for us and they don't serve any decent purpose apart from
removing "extension:" from the url which is not something we should be
doing (depending on what shortcuts people make), we should be
encouraging people to use the proper urls because they are more likely
to be permanent.
Also they are confusing to some newer people where the url != the page
title which is out standard convention with mediawiki.
This is your single view. My view is that a better management of
shortcuts (shortcut repository) would help users and reserving
abbreviations and names<certainlength for shortcuts would not be too
difficult.
With this statement I wish to close the discussion, as you came with so
strong arguments, that I feel, I have no chance to convince you of the
opposite.
So, I respect your view, but have a dissenting opinion-