On 2013-09-16 7:09 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
> Any of the entry points? Any new entry point? Anything we ever want to
> put into the root?
> We should be able to avoid most conflicts by picking prefixed entry
> points. However, as we can't drop the clashing /w/api.php any time soon
> I have removed the /wiki/ part from the RFC:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Clean_up_URLs
>
> So now only the conversion from
>
> /w/index.php?title=foo?action=history
> to
> /foo?action=history
>
> is under discussion.
>
> Gabriel
Has the practice of disallowing /w/ or /index.php inside robots.txt to
force search engines to completely ignore search, edit pages,
exponential pagination, etc.. been considered?

Btw, side note on root urls. We still have an open bug allowing attacks
on wikis using root paths:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38048

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]


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