[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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