https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27087
Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CC| |krinklem...@gmail.com
--- Comment #7 from Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> 2011-08-04 05:54:54 UTC ---
Rationale:
* In contrary to what Waldir said ("since these are not heavily used") both the
curid paramter and the wgArticleId are very much used accross templates,
archives, permalinks, bookmarks, gadgets, users scripts, site scripts and what
not
* Changing them means we will have two ways of doing the same thing, which is
more confusing ("what's the difference between curid and pageid ?"). This also
most likely means one will have to be dropped at some point, see next point:
* Cool URI's don't change!
* Why intentionally change something that requires changing 100s if not 1000s
of script pages within and outside of the Wikimedia landscape regarding to
scripts and templates ? Not to mention the documentation that has been copied
of the years all over the place...
* Lastly, if there would actually been an improvement (other than, "it looks
better if you know the database") I could see an advantage, but right now it
seems like bike-shedding over something that wil only bring more work and more
argue from the community over breaking scripts and templates.
One solution I would consider as an option is adding the pageid as an alias and
keeping both "for ever". (eg. wgArticleId, pageId in mw.config JS and
curid/pageid parameter to index.php).
--
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 on the CC list for the bug.
_______________________________________________
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
