Last modified: 2014-11-17 10:35:01 UTC
With the move to dual-licensing with CC-by-sa, reusers should link back to the history. I propose nice URLs for the history pages, so we don't end up with things peppered with "?" and "&" and "=" printed on mugs, travel guides, etc. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/history/Xenu instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xenu&action=history . (Obviously, reusers *could* put up their own history page. But making compliance easier is likely to make it better.) I filed this as an enhancement of Wikimedia's installation, rather that of MediaWiki itself, as it's mostly mod_rewrite config. It would of course be nice if the software did this by default when short URLs are enabled, but that may really be a further enhancement.
It's technically possible, see the Wikitech site: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/history/Main_Page
Cf bug 16659. Not really a dupe though.
Rob, don't set this up quite yet -- I think I want to float a few sample configs before we commit to URLs.