On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/3/14 MinuteElectron
<minuteelectron(a)googlemail.com>om>:
2009/3/14 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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
paths". It simply needs Apache rewrites setting up and a configuration
variable within MediaWiki altering, there may be other implications in
terms of internal organisation, robot functionality and caching
though.
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 :-)
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...
Magnus