John Vandenberg wrote: > from foundation-l thread "[Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]" > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Casey Brown <li...@caseybrown.org> wrote: >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> >> wrote: >>> Of course >>> unless someone finds a way to redirect en.wikipedia.org/Example to >>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example . >> >> "Did you mean to type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example? You will >> be automatically redirected there in five seconds." >> >> :-) >> >> It already redirects there, though we don't want to advertise that we >> have a "link shortener" because the 404 page redirects. > > Is there a good reason for us to always include the '/wiki/' in the URL? > Removing the prefix would save five characters, and I'm guessing that > it would also save a measurable amount of traffic serving 5KB 404 > pages. > > Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few > regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. > \/w\/.*\.php).
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory Changing the URL structure is a big deal. There's been discussion about switching "/wiki/" to "/view/" if $wgActionPaths are implemented on Wikimedia wikis at some point, but I don't think putting article titles in the root directory is ever going to happen. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
