from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want
enwp.org?]"
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk
<lodewijk(a)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).
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