2010/10/4 Alex Brollo <alex.bro...@gmail.com>: > It's strange (but I guess that there's a sound reason) that plain wikilinks > point to a variable field of wiki records (the name of the page) while many > troubles would be solved, if they could point to the invariable field of > such records: the id. The obviuos restult is, that all links are broken (and > need fixing) as soon as a page is "moved" (t.i. renamed).
Don't redirects exist specifically for that? > > My question is: which is the sound reason for this strange thing? There's > some idea about fixing this? Err.. perhaps they decided people should be able to comprehend the link destianation? Plus I remember something about "nice URLs" being a MUST DO in SEO a while ago...but I'm not 100% sure on that. I certainly hope this won't change anytime soon, on Wikipedia at least. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
