On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! > > < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#URL_like_-_example.com.2FPage_title > "*Warning:* this method may create an unstable URL structure and leave some page names unusable on your wiki. See Manual:Wiki in site root directory<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory>. Please see the article Cool URIs don't change<http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI>and take a few minutes to devise a stable URL structure for your web site before hopping willy-nilly into rewrites into the URL root." - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
