2009/3/14 Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/14 MinuteElectron minuteelectron@googlemail.com:
2009/3/14 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Here's an idea: nice URLs for the history. So we don't end up with stupid things peppered with ? and & and = printed on mugs, travel guides, etc. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Xenu for the history of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu .
This is already possible in MediaWiki, using a feature called "action
Oh, I know it's not hard (though mod_rewrite rules resemble alchemy more than anything deterministic or logical). So I suppose the question is: can we get this into the Wikimedia settings?
IIRC one reason to use wiki/ and w/ instead of "direct" URLs (en.wikipedia.org/Xenu) was to allow for non-article data at a later time (the other reason was to set noindex/nofollow rules). Looks like we will use that space after all :-)
Kewl! Submitted as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17981 - comments welcome. Any devs like it/dislike it? A Simple Matter of mod_rewrite rules?
It'd be nice if it went into the base MediaWiki whenever short URLs are enabled, but as long as the /history/ link works that's fine for these purposes: to have reasonably obvious URLs that won't die in speech.
What might /really/ be cool would be http://en.wikipedia.org/authors/Xenu or even http://en.wikipedia.org/main_authors/Xenu filtering out minor contribs and IPs...
We can save that for another bug if this one is accepted ;-)
- d.