On 2013-09-16 7:12 PM, "Gabriel Wicke" gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
while tinkering with a RESTful content API I was reminded of an old pet peeve of mine: The URLs we use in Wikimedia projects are relatively long and ugly. I believe that we now have the ability to clean this up if we want to.
It would be nice to
drop the /wiki/ prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
use simple action urls https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=history
The details of this proposal are discussed in the following RFC:
I'm looking forward to your input!
Gabriel
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Well I'm not particularly fond of this idea (probably because im stuck in my ways more than anything else), I do think that making the en.wikipedia.org/foo be an instant http redirect instead of "did you mean/redirecting in 5 seconds" message we currently have might make sense.
Additionally there is some security issues in ie6 when doing foo?action=raw if I recall.
-bawolff