On 01/03/2011 11:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, MZMcBride<[email protected]> wrote: >> It looks like a nice usability fix. :-) (Now to get Special:MovePage turned >> into ?action=move....) > > I'd do the opposite -- stop using actions other than view, and move > everything to special pages. (Of course we'd still support the > old-style URLs forever for compat, just not generate them anywhere.) > The set of things that are done by actions is small, fixed, and > incoherent: edit, history, delete, protect, watch; but not move, > undelete, export, logs, related changes. The distinction is > historical -- I assume most or all of the action-based ones came about > before we had such a thing as special pages. It would be cleaner if > we only had special pages for doing non-view actions.
I think we've had both actions and special pages from the beginning (well, since r403 at least). I suspect it's just that adding new special pages was easier than adding new actions, so people tended to pick the path of least resistance. -- Ilmari Karonen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
