| daniel added a comment. |
@MZMcBride It's not about the URLs bein "pretty" URLs as much as it's about the URLs being stable. That is much easier to achieve if the URL is "clean": it should not expose technical details about the underlying web application or access mechanism. Clean URLs provide a layer of abstraction. This improves stability of data that uses the URLs as identifiers.
Software that uses URLs can be updated. Data that uses URLs cannot. Ideally, URLs used as URIs should stay valid forever. So it's impogenertant to think about what they should look like, so we can still happily serve them when we have replaced MediaWiki with a hive of genetically engineered cyborg termites in 100 years.
The basic idea is that stable URIs should expose a minimum of information. Have a look at https://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/ and the other resources I linked in the description.
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