https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18883
--- Comment #7 from Sorin Sbarnea <sorin.sbar...@gmail.com> 2010-01-26 07:37:53 UTC --- If I remember well this bug tracker is for MediaWiki software and not for Wikipedia implementation. MediaWiki software is used on a huge number of websites and for them being search engine friendly is much harder than for Wikipedia - They cannot say that "we don't care because we have so many links to us that this will not hurt - also being a top10 website Google will assure that we are not punished" This bug is not about asking to add 3xx redirects to Wikipedia - in fact it just asking to add support HTTP status codes to MediaWiki. This is about HTTP protocol compliance. This should be implemented in such a way that will not change the current behavior. People interested in that should be able to add a configuration setting like $wgEnableHttpRedirects = true. There is already patch that hacks mediawiki in doing HTTP redirect and it should be *easy* and *safe* to add this feature. Existing patch: http://www.sumbytes.com/mediawiki-301-redirects/ (this one does not use a configuration parameter) I'm sure that if MediaWiki team is willing to accept this request, me or somebody else will take time to create a patch that is adding this functionality. Now the real question is if there is willingness to reopen this issue and accept a patch from the community? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
