Daniel Kinzler wrote:
During next Wednesday's RFC meeting on IRC, we are planning to discuss introducing "Per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis". This is an exploratory discussion, with no expectation of a final decision. We are looking for concerns and suggestions.
If you care about improved support for multi-lingual wikis, please visit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662 and comment before next week's "live" meeting on IRC. And of yourse, join that meeting, if you like!
As I said on the Phabricator task, before we extend our URL specifications, I'd like us to explicitly define them. I think it's time.
* Maybe we no longer want /wiki/ in the URL for regular views. * For the two cited examples, commons.wikimedia.org and wikidata.org, maybe we want to move the former to its own domain (e.g., wikicommons.org) and change the latter to load from en.wikidata.org, fr.wikidata.org, etc.
I think outside users and developers don't want to learn the intricacies of why some URLs end in "en" and some start with "en". I think most people just want a repeatable procedure for determining what URL they can hit and what to expect from it.
In the process of defining our URL schemes, we can probably make our resource locators a bit more uniform, or at least document what we would like to eventually achieve.
For the Architecture Committee in particular, I think giving some renewed focus to our information architecture is reasonable and prudent. (I know Brion and Gabriel have both worked on this previously.)
MZMcBride