https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21572
Nemo <federicol...@tiscali.it> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Blocks| |42085
--- Comment #27 from Nemo <federicol...@tiscali.it> 2012-11-18 15:51:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> However if you want a permanent link for sharing to the article about Foo,
> then
> we use title ids[1] (not page ids), which is what the ShortUrl extension
> implements. See bug 42085 for more info on that.
I've already read it and I disagree with what you say. This feature serves
readers, which don't care e.g. if the article is moved to another title to
respect lowercase/uppercase conventions, or to free it in order to create a
disambiguation page, etc. If they want a permanent link, they just want to link
the content they're seeing, which by definition will have to follow the history
i.e. the page id.
Permanent links to a title (which to be really permanent would need
?redirect=no) are surely another use case, which is useful mainly for editors –
who care about exact titles, histories and archives to be dug, linking titles
which currently have no content or a different content but in a far future will
have what the title should have according to conventions, ... and such things
–, but has some overlap with the previous point.
Bug 42085 has currently three possible implementations: this bug, ShortUrl and
LilURL-like; they should all be added as blockers until one is chosen, but the
others don't have bugs AFAIK.
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