[OSM-talk] nicer wiki URLs

[Tom Hughes]

Grant Slater wrote:
> Stefan Baebler wrote:
>> IMO I would be good to have nicer & shorter URLs in our wiki.
>>
>> Eg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Making_Overview
>> could & probably should be shortened to:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Map_Making_Overview
>>
>> The change would also need to redirect old URLs to the new, shorter ones
>>   
> 
> Fix now... there have been many requests for this.
> 
> I have gone for this format:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page
> ->
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page

I don't really see the point of that - if you were going to get rid of 
the middle bit then fine, but just changing it seems a bit silly.

As I said last weekend I had planned on getting rid of it when we moved 
machines, but the mediawiki manual scared me off.

Tom

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