Rob Lanphier wrote: > I guess I'm not quite so confident this problem won't rear it's head > again, but since it's a theoretical problem at this point, and we have > enough actual problems to deal with, I'm happy to drop it for now.
This thread reminded me of the old Webalizer hack of including "&dontcountme=s" in URLs to avoid things like JavaScript loads inflating the stats it collected. (Or at least I think that's the issue the URL parameter was trying to solve.) The URL trick crept into all sorts of places, including site-wide JavaScript pages, article text, and even core code.[1] I think setting a standard is a good idea in general, though I worry about making it prefix-based (like all URLs starting with "http://foo.wikiproject.org/wiki/";). I can see potential problems with counting hits to the secure server and I can see potential problems if the URL structure changes in the future (possibly to something more sensible like "http://foo.wikiproject.org/view/";). These problems might be non-existent or unavoidable, I'm not completely sure. MZMcBride [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/35103 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
