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! > > Even better would be getting rid of action urls entirely. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
