Should we do this or not. It changes the way mediawiki behaves but I think it is a decision that should be made by this team, not infrastructure.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/636
-Mike
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
Should we do this or not. It changes the way mediawiki behaves but I think it is a decision that should be made by this team, not infrastructure.
Can someone briefly say like 3 potential positives and negatives of making the change versus not making the change?
Then, hopefully the right answer becomes obvious.
--Max
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Max Spevack wrote:
Can someone briefly say like 3 potential positives and negatives of making the change versus not making the change?
Positives: 1. No confusion between Artwork/ and Artwork, they become one in the same, just not within the wiki -- and so when people post a link like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ to a mailing list it goes to the right place 2. No pages will be allowed to end in slashes 3. More URL consistency 4. *And* if you really want to go to a page ending in a slash, you can add a # at the end of the URL.
Negatives: 1. No pages will be allowed to end in slashes 2. Umm... I can't think of any more
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Ian Weller wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Max Spevack wrote:
Can someone briefly say like 3 potential positives and negatives of making the change versus not making the change?
Positives:
- No confusion between Artwork/ and Artwork, they become one in the same, just not within the wiki -- and so when people post a link like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ to a mailing list it goes to the right place
- No pages will be allowed to end in slashes
- More URL consistency
- *And* if you really want to go to a page ending in a slash, you can add a # at the end of the URL.
Negatives:
- No pages will be allowed to end in slashes
- Umm... I can't think of any more
negatives:
1) If there are any pages with and without a /. One of them will never be seen again. 2) unforseen. I'm not aware of others doing this, its not the 'mediawiki way' Truth is we don't know what will happen. Its a risk, I'm not sure its very big though.
-Mike
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
- unforseen. I'm not aware of others doing this, its not the 'mediawiki
way' Truth is we don't know what will happen. Its a risk, I'm not sure its very big though.
I've seen very very few websites that use the concept of pages under other pages (read: slashes) anyway. It has steered toward the concept that we have directories. Ugh.
Mike McGrath wrote:
Should we do this or not. It changes the way mediawiki behaves but I think it is a decision that should be made by this team, not infrastructure.
I would vote for making this change. It is terribly annoying that I have to remove a slash to get the page I want.
Rahul
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
Should we do this or not. It changes the way mediawiki behaves but I think it is a decision that should be made by this team, not infrastructure.
I would vote for making this change. It is terribly annoying that I have to remove a slash to get the page I want.
I vote +1, based on the rest of this thread. Make the change.
--Max
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Max Spevack wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
Should we do this or not. It changes the way mediawiki behaves but I think it is a decision that should be made by this team, not infrastructure.
I would vote for making this change. It is terribly annoying that I have to remove a slash to get the page I want.
I vote +1, based on the rest of this thread. Make the change.
Implemented. Some cached pages will need to timeout but it's more or less up and ready.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/ (test)
-Mike
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