Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping Alias as a recommended way to setup Short URLs

2012-08-04 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: To top off the issues with Alias, it can't be used to setup a 404 image thumbnail handler and it can't be used in the future plans of MediaWiki handling 404s internally. Don't Wikimedia wikis use Alias? How are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping Alias as a recommended way to setup Short URLs

2012-08-04 Thread Krinkle
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: To top off the issues with Alias, it can't be used to setup a 404 image thumbnail handler and it can't be used in the future plans of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping Alias as a recommended way to setup Short URLs

2012-08-04 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:17:47 -0700, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: To top off the issues with Alias, it can't be used to setup a

[Wikitech-l] Dropping Alias as a recommended way to setup Short URLs

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel Friesen
After some review I'm thinking of eliminating Alias as the recommended way of configuring short urls in MediaWiki and instead exclusively suggesting the use of RewriteRules. I reviewed how Alias seems to work and I can't see any real advantage at all to using it. Certainly not enough to