Op 12 apr 2011, om 21:35 heeft Bryan Tong Minh het volgende geschreven: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Bryan Tong Minh > <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> * http://ta.wikipedia.org/?curid=2810 (already works) >>> * http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/262 (proposal; // >>> base_convert ( 2810, 10, 36 ); ) >>> >> I think "permalink" is the common used term for this kind of url. So >> Special:Permalink/262.
Well, permalink is a permanent link to a certain revision (oldid) And has been in de sidebar for a while now and a specialpage-redirect has been implemented in 1.18. However a permanent link to a revision or a short link to the current page are two very different things. Short-url intends to make a link to [[Article name]] available in a shortform, especially useful for non-latin article names. Permanent-url intends to make the same content available under a permanent location, the fact that the url (can [1]) be shorter is a side-effect. If a page is modified (new revision), the permalink will be outdated. ...if a page recreated the permanent will no longer work at all. So summarized: * Imho a ShortUrl-specialpage extension is redundant as the few characters saved with base64 instead of the page-id (not revision id) directly is not much and only introduced a new number/variable into the mix of things to keep track of * Short page-id links already exist by using /?curid=<pageid> * Pageid is not a reliable way to link to an "article" of a certain subject. -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
