On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
Hi all,
In diving into a problem with logging[1], we discovered that we were
unintentionally treating several special page accesses (in this case,
containing included Javascript) as normal pageviews, thus throwing our
pageview statistics way off. The proposed solution involves changing
the way we access those Javascript requests from this form:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BannerController
...to this form:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerController
I'm assuming this convention isn't documented anywhere (other than
earlier today on the wikitech wiki[2]). Before we run off and
document this as something code reviewers need to look out for, I'd
like to make sure this is really how we'd like to make the
distinction.
I think the anomally is to have a Special page that is javascript.
A special page should look like a wiki page.
In your case, I would append ctype=text/javascript to the query string,
so it
a) Looks more like something that will give out javascript.
b) Forces it to use the long style.
Nope, appending parameters works also in the
short form:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BannerController?ctype=text/javascript
Works also for ?action=edit etc.
Marco
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