On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:07:33PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: > Grant Slater wrote: > > Stefan Baebler wrote: > >> IMO I would be good to have nicer & shorter URLs in our wiki. > >> > >> Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview > >> could & probably should be shortened to: > >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview > >> > >> The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones > >> > > > > Fix now... there have been many requests for this. > > > > I have gone for this format: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page > > -> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page > > I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of > the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly. > > As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved > machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off.
Well, "wiki" looks a little bit nicer than "index.php" and we are consistent with the Wikipedia now, which also uses the "wiki". Granted, its not a big deal, but its a step... :-) Joche -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
