On 2013-09-17 2:48 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> 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). > That would be better. > > But still, I think this is a bad idea. Essentially, putting Articles at the > root > of the domain mains hogging the domain as a namespace. Depending on what you > want to do with your wiki, this is not a good idea. > > For insteancve, wikidata uses the /entity/ path for URIs representing things, > while the documents under /wiki/ are descriptions of these things. If page > content was located at the root, we'd have nasty namespace pollution. > > Basically: page content is only one of the things a wiki may server. > "Internal" > resources like CSS are another. But there may be much more, like structured > data. It's good to use prefixes to keep these apart. > > -- daniel +1
We've got others for content-related things too besides ones for internal resources and structured data. eg: https://test2.wikipedia.org/s/85 ((And I'll try to resist starting a rant about the knockoff "REST" which is a partial premise here)) ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
