On 2013-09-16 7:12 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: > > > > I'm looking forward to your input! > > Gabriel > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Well I'm not particularly fond of this idea (probably because im stuck in my ways more than anything else), I do think that making the en.wikipedia.org/foo be an instant http redirect instead of "did you mean/redirecting in 5 seconds" message we currently have might make sense. Additionally there is some security issues in ie6 when doing foo?action=raw if I recall. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
