[Wikitech-l] Re: URLs

I'd be for replacing the action links with subdirectories, but against putting all language wikis in the same subdomain, because I think that's much more of a "cultural" change than changing the URLs for edit pages and so on.

Also, why can't articles just be at the root?

so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Main_Page which is equivalent to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://en.wikipedia.org/article/Main_Page

but also: http://en.wikipedia.org/edit/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Main_Page and hopefully... http://en.wikipedia.org/delete/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/protect/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/move/Main_Page etc.

- David

Kate wrote:

hi,

in 1.5, we have the possibility of changing URLs used for projects.

previously, there were two forms of URLs:

    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit

we now have the choice to replace "action=" with a new path:

    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
    - http://en.wikipedia.org/edit/Main_Page

however, at the same time, we could implement a change in the way domain names are used, that has been discussed several times in the past:

    - http://wikipedia.org/en/article/Main_Page
    - http://wikipedia.org/en/edit/Main_Page

as well as being nicer from a technical perspective, i think this reduces the disconnection between different languages of the same project. so, i'd like to propose that we move to the last form of URLs at some point.

does anyone have comments on or object to this change?

kate.