David Gerard wrote:
2009/3/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
The only thing *on* wikimedia websites that does satisfy that currently is the history of articles; a direct link into the history is sadly the only option available. I think it is way cool that people are thinking of innovative ways of formatting that information (in ways that would for instance cut out the often inflammatory edit summaries), but that is for the future.
Here's an idea: nice URLs for the history. So we don't end up with stupid things peppered with ? and & and = printed on mugs, travel guides, etc.
e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Xenu for the history of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu .
Something to point at for CC-by-sa attribution is an actual reason to put this into MediaWiki.
cc to wikitech-l - is this something suitable for Wikimedia use? Shall I file an enhancement bug?
See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450 .
Hehe, I am way ahead of you, brother.
I've already sort of put the idea out there, discreetly, that it would be cool if there was a url redirection service on wikimedia servers, that would shorten the urls into something like http://wmattr/342y6 or the like (perhaps even http://wpattr/342y6 ; http://wsattr/342y6 ; http://wnattr/342y6 and the like. Of course it would be better if it would direct (in the future at least) to a stripped history without the summaries.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen