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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@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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