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 [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
