On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
There's a new RFC page up on the wiki: http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favor_of_spec...
...can't figure out how I would summarize it here so I'll let the RFC page speak for itself.
Thanks for writing this up. I've added a few quick comments and put it on my watchlist.
I *hate* action urls. They overly complicate Article and related classes, and date from a time before special pages existed. While on the one hand I think the cleanup recently to make Action classes and move the code out was a positive thing...I agree the better course of action is to kill them entirely. Of course, things like action=edit should work as back-compat for near eternity (supporting action=foobar redirects to Special:Foobar/Title would take very little code).
-Chad