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 else on

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 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 instant

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

2011-05-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-05-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr 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

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

2011-05-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/18 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com 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

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

[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 li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Of course unless someone finds a way to redirect en.wikipedia.org/Example to

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

2011-05-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com 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

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 jay...@gmail.com 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/

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 li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Of course unless someone finds a way to redirect

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 z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: John Vandenberg wrote: from foundation-l thread [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?] On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM,

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 gerard.meijs...@gmail.com Hoi, Does that mean that

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

2011-05-17 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com [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