[OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs
Hugh Barnes
list.osm at hughbris.com
Fri Nov 14 12:27:28 GMT 2008
On Friday 14 November 2008, 22:02:42, Shaun McDonald did write:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Making_Overview redirects to
> the correct page.
>
> On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:52, Stefan Baebler wrote:
>
> > Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview
> > could & probably should be shortened to:
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview
> >
I was contemplating pointing out that Shaun's URL != Stefan's. This is far
more interesting:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory
… possibly because I can vaguely remember tearing my hair out a few years back
trying to do just this.
> > The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter
> > ones
> >
Just to point out why, in case there is groaning: search engine juice will be
retained.
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