On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> There *might* be, in theory. In practice I doubt that there are any > articles starting with 'w/'. To avoid future conflicts, we should > probably prefix private paths with an underscore as titles cannot start > with it (and REST APIs often use it for special resources). > When talking about URI design and REST, it has nothing to do with functionality, but with organization and logical design. In URIs, the path part of the URI is considered a hierarchical structure. It doesn't make sense for api.php to be a sub-resource of the wiki itself. Even doing some sort of underscore design wouldn't make sense, because you're implying that the _images/ resource is the same level sub-resource as a normal article. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
