[OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
Hi! IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones The manual is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL enjoy the day, Stefan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Making_Overview redirects to the correct page. On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:52, Stefan Baebler wrote: Hi! IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones The manual is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL enjoy the day, Stefan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
I think you entirely missed the point. Redirecting a nicer url to a nasty one is the wrong way round! Cheers, Andy On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Shaun McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Making_Overview redirects to the correct page. On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:52, Stefan Baebler wrote: Hi! IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones The manual is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL enjoy the day, Stefan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
On Friday 14 November 2008, 22:02:42, Shaun McDonald did write: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Making_Overview redirects to the correct page. On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:52, Stefan Baebler wrote: Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview I was contemplating pointing out that Shaun's URL != Stefan's. This is far more interesting: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory … possibly because I can vaguely remember tearing my hair out a few years back trying to do just this. The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones Just to point out why, in case there is groaning: search engine juice will be retained. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
Stefan Baebler wrote: IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones Fix now... there have been many requests for this. I have gone for this format: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page I've updated robots.txt so there may be a bit of search engine flux for a few days. Sitemap.xml updated. Old URL continue to function. / Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
Grant Slater wrote: Stefan Baebler wrote: IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones Fix now... there have been many requests for this. I have gone for this format: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:07:33PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: Grant Slater wrote: Stefan Baebler wrote: IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones Fix now... there have been many requests for this. I have gone for this format: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off. Well, wiki looks a little bit nicer than index.php and we are consistent with the Wikipedia now, which also uses the wiki. Granted, its not a big deal, but its a step... :-) Joche -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
Tom Hughes wrote: I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off. I enabled it for a more pragmatic reason. It makes robots.txt simpler. :-) I tested the mediawiki on my test config prior and all seemed to work ok. / Grant ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
Tom Hughes wrote: Grant Slater wrote: Stefan Baebler wrote: IMO I would be good to have nicer shorter URLs in our wiki. Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview could probably should be shortened to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones Fix now... there have been many requests for this. I have gone for this format: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. Yes, my initial proposal was to cut the unnecessary part of url. Also having wiki twice in URL makes little sense. As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off. good, i wasn't aware of that. I guess mediawiki guys are covering all the possible scenarios as detailed as we are when it comes to maps, api ... probably scaring off newcomers :) Some of the solutions are just a few lines of mod_rewrite config in apache and some settings in mediawiki. Stefan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
