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
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