Chad wrote: >On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> >wrote: >> 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 > >Even better would be getting rid of action urls entirely.
In favor of what? Special page URLs? A variant on https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history is https://en.wikipedia.org/history/Foo (using $wgActionPaths). The RFC currently seems to gloss over what problem is attempting to be solved here and what benefits a new URL structure might bring. I'd like to see a clearer statement of a problem and benefits to a switch, taking into account, for example, the overarching goal of making URLs fully localized. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
