Re: [WikiEN-l] Two small recommendations

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:30:14 -0500, Fastfission &lt;fastfission(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: The best place to post both software and website configuration problems/suggestions is at the bug tracker: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org You have to set up an account, but only so there's a confirmed e-mail address, to make sure people don't leave a report and then "run away". Of the mailing lists, wikitech-l is the most appropriate: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l There are various open "bugs" and previous discussions about the search behaviour; you might want to search in the bug tracker and the mailing list archives (add "site:mail.wikimedia.org" to a Google search). But yes, that certainly seems like a bug, so if you don't find one, it would be worth opening a bug report about it. That was recently changed because the code that previously dealt with it had a rather major bug. The main reason to encourage people to use the extra "/wiki/" is that there are URLs that *don't* refer to wiki pages, such as those that are part of the software (the graphics used in the interface, for instance). So if people start thinking of en.wikipedia.org/<page> as being a correct alternative to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<page>ge>, they are going to be confused when it *doesn't* work like that - especially since there is no way of predicting what URLs of that form will be needed for something else in the future. That's Brion's justification anyway: see http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-February/027873.html Of course, some people already *have* used URLs like that as though they were correct, and certainly it's handy to be able to type them, but I think it makes sense that as long as not all URLs of that form can be used that way (and guaranteed to always work that way) it's worth making people aware that they did the "wrong" thing. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]