Chad wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
It would be nice to
drop the /wiki/ prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
use simple action urls https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=history
The details of this proposal are discussed in the following RFC:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Clean_up_URLs
Even better would be getting rid of action urls entirely.
In favor of what? Special page URLs?
A variant on https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history is https://en.wikipedia.org/history/Foo (using $wgActionPaths).
The RFC currently seems to gloss over what problem is attempting to be solved here and what benefits a new URL structure might bring. I'd like to see a clearer statement of a problem and benefits to a switch, taking into account, for example, the overarching goal of making URLs fully localized.
MZMcBride