Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi all, > > In diving into a problem with logging[1], we discovered that we were > unintentionally treating several special page accesses (in this case, > containing included Javascript) as normal pageviews, thus throwing our > pageview statistics way off. The proposed solution involves changing > the way we access those Javascript requests from this form: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BannerController > > ...to this form: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerController > > I'm assuming this convention isn't documented anywhere (other than > earlier today on the wikitech wiki[2]). Before we run off and > document this as something code reviewers need to look out for, I'd > like to make sure this is really how we'd like to make the > distinction.
I think the anomally is to have a Special page that is javascript. A special page should look like a wiki page. In your case, I would append ctype=text/javascript to the query string, so it a) Looks more like something that will give out javascript. b) Forces it to use the long style. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
