On 09/16/2013 03:25 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#URL_like_-_example.com.2FPag...
"*Warning:* this method may create an unstable URL structure and leave some page names unusable on your wiki. See Manual:Wiki in site root directoryhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory. Please see the article Cool URIs don't changehttp://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URIand take a few minutes to devise a stable URL structure for your web site before hopping willy-nilly into rewrites into the URL root."
That is a very vague warning. So far I have lower-case 'favicon.ico', 'robots.txt' and 'w/' as potential conflicts. Do you see any others?
In general, I see removing /wiki/ as the less important part of the RFC. Using sub-resources rather than the random switch to /w/index.php is more important for caching (promotes deterministic URLs) and does not seem to involve similar trade-offs.
Gabriel