A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Wouldn't it be enough to set up the main tip page with a tip _name_ (which would be the current "title" of the tip, or a disambiguation page if there are more than one tip with the same title), and have the tip _number_ (only for tips imported from Vim-online) refer to a redirect page, let's say "Vim tip 1" => "The super star"? So the conversion script could convert "vimtip#1" to "[[Vim tip 1]]", which could be done mechanically, and the redirect would automagically resend anyone clicking that link to the actual page. I suppose that links pointing to the redirect pages could be readjusted later, in no hurry, either by hand or by a "wiki robot", and in either case with the help of the "What points here" page for the redirect.
Would someone who understands wiki procedures please describe how the URL for a tip would be generated. What is actually achievable? Can a URL be changed later without much effort? Can we have a redirect as Tony outlines above? I proposed devising a short id for each tip (like "super_star" for tip 1), then using that tip_id in the URL. That would avoid ugly URLs which would wrap in an email, or which would contain stuff like %20, making the URL hard to read. Is my concern (that we should avoid long ugly URLs) misguided? John
