Hi Nemo - I think the concern was that it might be the case that the 'title' parameter may be at the end of the URL, and the 'title' parameter could in principle support a value with forward slashes potentially indistinguishable from the string in option #2. Of course, regular expressions can make anything possible in theory :) Anybody else able to explain further on the title schema risk?

-Adam

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Adam Baso, 24/02/2015 01:41:

(2) More conventional provenance (e.g.,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castle&oldid=645632619/ref=_wref_source%3Dapp<...more
provenance info as desired>/).
Downside: technically speaking, may break the schema of well-formed titles

Break, how so? Parameters to short URLs are a hack which is not in MediaWiki core. (2) is more standard, not less, AFAICS. Any MediaWiki code should follow the {{fullurl:}} pattern. Of course this is not MediaWiki code and we already have things like wiki/Special:Search?search=query&sourceid=Mozilla-search

Nemo

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