2009/3/14 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>: > 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 >> 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 :-) Kewl! Submitted as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17981 - comments welcome. Any devs like it/dislike it? A Simple Matter of mod_rewrite rules? It'd be nice if it went into the base MediaWiki whenever short URLs are enabled, but as long as the /history/ link works that's fine for these purposes: to have reasonably obvious URLs that won't die in speech. > 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... We can save that for another bug if this one is accepted ;-) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
