Hi,

while tinkering with a RESTful content API I was reminded of an old pet
peeve of mine: The URLs we use in Wikimedia projects are relatively long
and ugly. I believe that we now have the ability to clean this up if we
want to.

It would be nice to

* drop the /wiki/ prefix
  https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo instead of
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo

* use simple action urls
  https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history instead of
  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=history

The details of this proposal are discussed in the following RFC:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Clean_up_URLs

I'm looking forward to your input!

Gabriel

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