On 2013-09-17 2:29 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On 17/09/13 10:24, K. Peachey wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:34 AM, 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). >>> >>> >> I bet people have said that about single letter interwikis, but we do >> have >> quiet a few "<single letter>:" page titles around. have "<single >> letter>/" >> is not un-believable. > > I have found 2476 pages in English Wikipedia that start with > '[something]/', inlcuding pages starting with '//'. None of them start > with a small letter though, for obvious reasons. The problem with that query is you're searching Wikipedia. Try Wiktionary instead. I found 5 just on the first letter I tested https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/a/
Also pages prefixed with "<single letter>/" aren't the only thing that creates conflicts. As far as standard rewrite rules and webservers are considered a directory at /a/ and /a are the same thing. See how https://en.wikipedia.org/w is not a 404 pointing to [[w]] like https://en.wikipedia.org/a is but instead is the same as w/ and hence w/index.php. So really any single letter article on a root pathed wiki conflicts with any single letter root directory. ;) And Wikipedia has a redirect like that for every single letter of the latin alphabet. (Actually forget the latin alphabet, they've practically got most of Unicode there) Side topic https://en.wiktionary.org/w/r/t is messed up: " To check for "r/t" on Wikipedia, see: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/r/t <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/r/t>" ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
