Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread MZMcBride
Huib Laurens wrote: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory is not > related right? > > We aren't going to run the wiki in the root, that will stay in /w/ we are > only looking for a shorter url if I'm correct. It's mostly related. It doesn't really matter where your ph

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/18 Roan Kattouw : > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: >> Hoi, >> Does that mean that you want to have something else in stead of "view" in >> each language ? > > Well at least that's not implemented right now. This is basically > about translating stuff like /w/index

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote: > It is not a wanted feature for the WMF cluster which wants to redirect > some languages/projects pairs to different clusters. > > hi.wikipedia.org (Hindi), could be made to points to an Indian Cluster > ja.wikipedia.org (Japanese) ... to an

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Does that mean that you want to have something else in stead of "view" in > each language ? Well at least that's not implemented right now. This is basically about translating stuff like /w/index.php?title=Foo&action=edit to /edit/Fo

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
On 18.05.2011 20:17, Ashar Voultoiz wrote: > On 18/05/11 07:31, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > >> With many wiki farms it would be nice to use /yourlangcode/index.php >> path prefix rather than yourlangcode.my.domain in domain name. Such >> setup is possible, however is not quickly automated (like "i

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 18/05/11 07:31, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > With many wiki farms it would be nice to use /yourlangcode/index.php > path prefix rather than yourlangcode.my.domain in domain name. Such > setup is possible, however is not quickly automated (like "instant > commons"). One should dig that manually. An

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Houle
On 5/17/2011 8:00 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > > Is there a good reason for us to always include the '/wiki/' in the URL? > Removing the prefix would save five characters, and I'm guessing that > it would also save a measurable amount of traffic serving 5KB 404 > pages. > > Is there something els

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* John Vandenberg [Wed, 18 May 2011 10:00:45 +1000]: > Is there a good reason for us to always include the '/wiki/' in the URL? > Removing the prefix would save five characters, and I'm guessing that > it would also save a measurable amount of traffic serving 5KB 404 > pages. > > Is there somethi

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Huib Laurens
Hi, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory is not related right? We aren't going to run the wiki in the root, that will stay in /w/ we are only looking for a shorter url if I'm correct. 2011/5/18 Gerard Meijssen > Hoi, > Does that mean that you want to have somethin

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Does that mean that you want to have something else in stead of "view" in each language ? Thanks, GerardM On 18 May 2011 06:25, MZMcBride wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: > > from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]" > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Bro

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread MZMcBride
John Vandenberg wrote: > from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]" > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Brown wrote: >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk >> wrote: >>> Of course >>> unless someone finds a way to redirect en.wikipedia.org/Example to >>> en.wikiped

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 11-05-17 06:01 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few >> regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. >> \/w\/.*\.php). > Anything beginning with /w/ must be di

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few > regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. > \/w\/.*\.php). Anything beginning with /w/ must be disallowed as a page title for this to work. Marco

[Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread John Vandenberg
from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]" On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk wrote: >> Of course >> unless someone finds a way to redirect en.wikipedia.org/Example to >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example . > > "Did you m