Timwi wrote:
Here is my personal opinion. I don't expect many people to agree, but I would like it this way most.
I want the "edit" to be at the *end* of the URL, not somewhere in the middle. That makes it easiest to add to (or remove from) an existing URL. (I also want the "wiki" to go away. :) )
One reason this is unlikely is that to keep web crawlers out of our interactive & dynamic areas we need to have distinct URL prefixes for robots.txt.
Right now we have a very basic split, with crawlable article pages in /wiki/ and everything else going via /w/index.php. We disallow the /w/ path prefix in robots.txt, so crawlers know not to bother poking in there.
While we can and do put prohibitions on indexing and further crawling in a <meta> tag, we also want to prevent crawlers from hitting expensive things like diffs in the first place.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)