On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 22:49 +0200, Brion Vibber wrote:
More generally, it's completely irresponsible for
a web-based resource
to rearrange content pages without providing a redirect from the old
URL. This is a basic principle which applies just as much to Wiktionary
as to Wikipedia, just as much to Hewlett Packard's driver web pages as
to Slashdot postings, just as much to a database of autogenerated
earthquake reports or a collection of press releases as to an online
academic journal.
100% agreed on this point, and one that many people don't seem to
understand. So it bears repeating:
More generally, it's completely irresponsible for
a web-based resource
to rearrange content pages [well, just re-read the paragraph above :) ]
Actually, it bears restating. Here's an old Tim Berners-Lee rant on the
subject, called "Cool URIs Don't Change", that I often trot out whenever
the topic rears its ugly head, which it does way too frequently:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
In my mind, making an exception for Wiktionary projects would be an
extremely disappointing reversal of very good policy maintained by the
rest of the Wikimedia projects.
Rob