On 10/24/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
I'd just take that number, round it up, and multiply it by 2-10. Somebody going a little crazy isn't a problem. It's just that we don't want somebody creating an alias for, say, all 3-8 letter words. :-)
Hmm, maybe the minimum alias length is more the issue then. A very short alias expansion is probably a mistake though. OTOH an article reachable by 200 aliases doesn't sound normal either.
Nice. That's a lot more work than I was thinking, but it sounds like a better approach. When you say search, you're thinking direct URLs and the "Go" button in the search box, right? I presume real searches should still search.
Yeah. Someday I'm hoping "go" and "search" will find harmony. Failing that, a verb for what happens when you type a query and press "go" would be good. I "goed" for it? Ugh.
Anyway, I've posted a proposal to Wikitech. We'll see.
Steve