John Vandenberg wrote:
from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]"
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Of course unless someone finds a way to redirect en.wikipedia.org/Example to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example .
"Did you mean to type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example? You will be automatically redirected there in five seconds."
:-)
It already redirects there, though we don't want to advertise that we have a "link shortener" because the 404 page redirects.
Is there a good reason for us to always include the '/wiki/' in the URL? Removing the prefix would save five characters, and I'm guessing that it would also save a measurable amount of traffic serving 5KB 404 pages.
Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. /w/.*.php).
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory
Changing the URL structure is a big deal. There's been discussion about switching "/wiki/" to "/view/" if $wgActionPaths are implemented on Wikimedia wikis at some point, but I don't think putting article titles in the root directory is ever going to happen.
MZMcBride