https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18889
Summary: External links should skip the scheme if it's the same
as the site
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Page rendering
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Each external or interwiki* link to a standard web site on a MediaWiki wiki has
the scheme/protocol http: at the front of the href and link title. This is not
necessary when the wiki is already at a http: URL.
Links like //www.example.com/ are perfectly valid and point to
http://www.example.com/ in this context, just as a link to /wiki/Something is
valid and unique on http://en.wikipedia.org/
If we remove the scheme from the emitted XHTML if identical to that of the
site, ten bytes could be saved on each link. This would add up even if the site
is gzipped; sadly, many - including Wikipedia's own front page; see bug 15944 -
are not. On the current wikipedia.org it would save 1685 bytes, or 3%; if
gzipped, it would save 59 bytes, or 0.4%. Still not bad for free!
It is not possible to specify a URL like [//example.com/ this] in the wikitext
itself, either, but this is probably not a bad thing, as links should point to
the same site when copied to another wiki.
* It will be possible to specify interwiki links without schemes once bug 18664
is fixed, and it might be necessary to modify the same code when fixing this
one.
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