[Wikitech-l] Per-language URLs for multilingual wiki pages (RFC discussion on Wednesday)

Hi all! For this week's RFC discussion [1], let's talk about per-language URLs for multilingual wiki pages[2]. The basic idea is to encode the uselang parameter the the url path so it doesn't break caching. This raises some questions about purging, and about rendering links. The meeting will be the usual time (Wednesday 21 UTC, 14 PDT, 23 CEST) and place (#wikimedia-office). A brief synopsis of the RFC: * Need: we want anon visitors to browse multilingual wikis in their language * Problem: Serving different renderings for the same URL messes with web caches. * Solution: Encode uselang in the URL path, generate links to the same URL path. Discussion points: * Is the proposed solution viable and useful? * Can we use varnish's xkey feature to purge all language versions of a page? * What should the path scheme look like? /wiki-fr/Foo or /fr/Foo or... * On which wiki shall we try this first? * How do we make a wiki-link to a specific language version of a page? If you are interested, please comment on the ticket[2] and join the meeting[1]. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E384 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662 -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.