Legoktm added a comment.

  I've never really understood why URLs are the preferred mechanism for storing 
these queries. They're nice for a one-off, but make collaboration (what wikis 
excel at) incredibly difficult, because if you want to adjust or update a 
query, you have to create a brand new URL and redistribute it.
  
  Is it just me or is that not even a goal of WDQS? Collaboration isn't even 
mentioned in the user story. Especially if we're talking about documenting 
queries, that seems like something you really want collaboration support for. 
We have a really good mechanism for storing text, distributing text, patrolling 
changes to text, and linking to text (wikis, in case it wasn't clear), so I 
just don't get why people want to do it all in URLs.
  
  Finding some fancy compression algorithm to squeeze even more characters into 
less bytes is a solution technically, but I don't think it really makes the 
service any better.

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