David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]>: > > >> The only thing *on* wikimedia websites that does >> satisfy that currently is the history of articles; a direct >> link into the history is sadly the only option available. I >> think it is way cool that people are thinking of innovative >> ways of formatting that information (in ways that would >> for instance cut out the often inflammatory edit summaries), >> but that is for the future. >> > > > 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 . > > Something to point at for CC-by-sa attribution is an actual reason to > put this into MediaWiki. > > cc to wikitech-l - is this something suitable for Wikimedia use? Shall > I file an enhancement bug? > > See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450 . > >
Hehe, I am way ahead of you, brother. I've already sort of put the idea out there, discreetly, that it would be cool if there was a url redirection service on wikimedia servers, that would shorten the urls into something like http://wmattr/342y6 or the like (perhaps even http://wpattr/342y6 ; http://wsattr/342y6 ; http://wnattr/342y6 and the like. Of course it would be better if it would direct (in the future at least) to a stripped history without the summaries. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
