2009/3/14 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>om>:
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
> 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.