On 09/16/2013 04:09 PM, Petr Onderka wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
In practice I doubt that there are any articles starting with 'w/'.
Actually, there are. Looking at enwiktionary only, there are 10 pages starting with "w/". Some of those are redirects (e.g "w/r/t"), but others are normal articles (e.g. "w/", "w/e").
Ah, ok. That would make it hard to keep /w/api.php working. /_w/api.php would not suffer from that problem, but then current API users would break.
So I guess that kills the /wiki/ removal in the shorter term. Maybe we should however consider using something like /_w/ if we ever introduce a new API entry point to avoid conflicts with valid article names in the future.
Gabriel