Hoi,
Does that mean that you want to have something else in stead of "view" in
each language ?
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 18 May 2011 06:25, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:

> John Vandenberg wrote:
> > 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).
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory
>
> Changing the URL structure is a big deal. There's been discussion about
> switching "/wiki/" to "/view/" if $wgActionPaths are implemented on
> Wikimedia wikis at some point, but I don't think putting article titles in
> the root directory is ever going to happen.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
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