2009/3/14 MinuteElectron <minuteelect...@googlemail.com>:
> 2009/3/14 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>:

>> Here's an idea: nice URLs for the history. So we don't end up with
>> stupid things peppered with ? and & and = printed on mugs, travel
>> guides, etc.
>> e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Xenu for the history of
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu .

> This is already possible in MediaWiki, using a feature called "action
> paths". It simply needs Apache rewrites setting up and a configuration
> variable within MediaWiki altering, there may be other implications in
> terms of internal organisation, robot functionality and caching
> though.


Oh, I know it's not hard (though mod_rewrite rules resemble alchemy
more than anything deterministic or logical). So I suppose the
question is: can we get this into the Wikimedia settings?


- d.

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