On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
There *might* be, in theory. In practice I doubt that there are any articles starting with 'w/'. To avoid future conflicts, we should probably prefix private paths with an underscore as titles cannot start with it (and REST APIs often use it for special resources).
When talking about URI design and REST, it has nothing to do with functionality, but with organization and logical design. In URIs, the path part of the URI is considered a hierarchical structure. It doesn't make sense for api.php to be a sub-resource of the wiki itself. Even doing some sort of underscore design wouldn't make sense, because you're implying that the _images/ resource is the same level sub-resource as a normal article.
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