On 26 March 2012 08:15, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote:

> - Removing this autodetected feature will avoid breaking wikis out of the
> box.


Right - what is the extent of the breakage you're seeing in new installs?

'Cos in the general use case (apache with mod_php), it's the way
Mediawiki works out of the box by default, it Just Works and so
there's a huge backward-compatibility pile of wikis with this URL
format.


> - Users who insist on /index.php/Foo style urls now have to opt-in to
> something that could shoot them in the foot by actually configuring
> MediaWiki to use `$wgArticlePath = "/index.php/$1";`


Again, this looks very like a personal aesthetics argument.


- d.

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