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Bug 17981 - Short URLs for history pages (set up wgActionPaths for Wikimedia sites)
Short URLs for history pages (set up wgActionPaths for Wikimedia sites)
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-03-14 20:33 UTC by David Gerard
Modified: 2014-11-17 10:35 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Description David Gerard 2009-03-14 20:33:12 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.
Comment 1 Casey Brown 2009-03-14 20:52:32 UTC
It's technically possible, see the Wikitech site: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/history/Main_Page
Comment 2 Chad H. 2009-03-14 22:00:37 UTC
Cf bug 16659. Not really a dupe though.
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2009-03-16 17:51:24 UTC
Rob, don't set this up quite yet -- I think I want to float a few sample configs before we commit to URLs.

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