On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/14 MinuteElectron <[email protected]>: >> 2009/3/14 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > >>> Here's an idea: nice URLs for the history. So we don't end up with >>> stupid things peppered with ? and & and = printed on mugs, travel >>> guides, etc. >>> e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Xenu for the history of >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu . > >> This is already possible in MediaWiki, using a feature called "action >> paths". It simply needs Apache rewrites setting up and a configuration >> variable within MediaWiki altering, there may be other implications in >> terms of internal organisation, robot functionality and caching >> though. > > > Oh, I know it's not hard (though mod_rewrite rules resemble alchemy > more than anything deterministic or logical). So I suppose the > question is: can we get this into the Wikimedia settings?
IIRC one reason to use wiki/ and w/ instead of "direct" URLs (en.wikipedia.org/Xenu) was to allow for non-article data at a later time (the other reason was to set noindex/nofollow rules). Looks like we will use that space after all :-) What might /really/ be cool would be http://en.wikipedia.org/authors/Xenu or even http://en.wikipedia.org/main_authors/Xenu filtering out minor contribs and IPs... Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
