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Moin,
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 16:50, Rowan Collins wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:04:02 +0000 (UTC), Walter
Vermeir
<walter(a)wikipedia.be> wrote:
Can the /wiki/ part not be removed removed
completely form the url?
No. As Brion rightly points out, there are, and always will be, URLs
for things other than wiki pages. If, for instance,
http://en.wikipedia.org/skins was the URL of a wiki page called
"skins", where would the files (CSS, images, etc) for displaying the
skin be stored?
Er, maybe in <http://en.wikipedia.org/skins/> ?
And even more so, if
http://en.wikipedia.org/w
referred to the article [[w]], all the URLs of the form
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=... would instantly break
(in fact, they would point to pages called things like
[[w/index.php?title=...]]).
No, simple fix: don't redirect URLs with "/" in them. That would not allow
a redirect for the article "skins/scans", but articles with "/" in
them
are probably in the minority.
In fact, without the check for "/", the redirect would also redirect
"/wiki/article" to "/wiki/wiki/article", so it must be already in
place..
While we could have all sorts of exceptions and
rearrangements and
special cases, it would be an absolute maintenance nightmare, so I
agree with Brion that these short URLs should be considered
"incorrect" even if they work most of the time.
One could also say that only wiki articles should live under the
en.wikipedia.org namespace and everything else should be somewhere else,
like
files.wikipedia.org or
skins.wikipedia.org etc.
Just my 0.02€,
Tels
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