On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Our current URL structure is extremely obtuse for non-technical users, and
> generally defies their expectations. To most people,
> en.wikipedia.org/Dogor even
> wikipedia.org/Dog should work just fine, not produce a 404.
>

To be fair, both of those links redirect to the proper URL anyway. It
wouldn't be hard to just change that from 404 to a redirect. Nonetheless
the canonical URI should still be /wiki/Article_title.

*-- *
*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

Reply via email to