Am 11.06.2011 05:45, schrieb K. Peachey:
Eww no, shortcuts should be avoided where possible, they are basically pointless for us and they don't serve any decent purpose apart from removing "extension:" from the url which is not something we should be doing (depending on what shortcuts people make), we should be encouraging people to use the proper urls because they are more likely to be permanent.
Also they are confusing to some newer people where the url != the page title which is out standard convention with mediawiki.
This is your single view. My view is that a better management of shortcuts (shortcut repository) would help users and reserving abbreviations and names<certainlength for shortcuts would not be too difficult. With this statement I wish to close the discussion, as you came with so strong arguments, that I feel, I have no chance to convince you of the opposite.
So, I respect your view, but have a dissenting opinion-