from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]" On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: >> Of course >> unless someone finds a way to redirect en.wikipedia.org/Example to >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example . > > "Did you mean to type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example? You will > be automatically redirected there in five seconds." > > :-) > > It already redirects there, though we don't want to advertise that we > have a "link shortener" because the 404 page redirects.
Is there a good reason for us to always include the '/wiki/' in the URL? Removing the prefix would save five characters, and I'm guessing that it would also save a measurable amount of traffic serving 5KB 404 pages. Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. \/w\/.*\.php). -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
