Am 11.06.2011 05:45, schrieb K. Peachey: > > Eww no, shortcuts should be avoided where possible, they are basically > pointless for us and they don't serve any decent purpose apart from > removing "extension:" from the url which is not something we should be > doing (depending on what shortcuts people make), we should be > encouraging people to use the proper urls because they are more likely > to be permanent. > > Also they are confusing to some newer people where the url != the page > title which is out standard convention with mediawiki. > This is your single view. My view is that a better management of shortcuts (shortcut repository) would help users and reserving abbreviations and names<certainlength for shortcuts would not be too difficult. With this statement I wish to close the discussion, as you came with so strong arguments, that I feel, I have no chance to convince you of the opposite.
So, I respect your view, but have a dissenting opinion- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
