https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30266

Max Semenik <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Max Semenik <[email protected]> 2011-08-07 11:20:39 UTC 
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Indeed, wiki*.*/wiki/ looks a bit schizophrenic. It is a leftoff from times
when there was wikipedia.org/images/, wikipedia.org/tarballs/ and so on. Since
these are not used anymore, we can shorten URLs a bit without interferring with
other bits and pieces. If the wikipedia.org/Article_Name schema is unacceptable
from an ops viewpoint (it's still possible though not advised), we still can
shorten URLs to something like:

wikipedia.org/index.php?...
wikipedia.org/w/Article_Name

This might involve the following steps:
1) Relocate the MW root directory to the site root.
2) Turn the previous .php files at w/ into symlinks
3) A year later, set $wgArticlePath to w/ at the same time redirecting the old
.php files with rewrite rules.

Although it's a PITA, it (or similar changes) will result in nicer URLs.

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