On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 10:56 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > > > Sorry I couldn't attend today. Here's some stuff I dug from the IRC > > log: > > > > * UserName => User:username ... ouch > > - anything we can do with mod_rewrite? > > - some of these pages are well indexed and referenced > > - any reason we cannot migrate all the wiki/UserName to an equivalent > > wiki/UserName and let people source that to fill out their User:username > > page. > > Nothing exists that maps wikiname to username. wikiname was a poor choice > and now we're paying for it :-/ > > > - I understand that User:foobar has special meaning in MediaWiki and > > agree it is worth the hassle for those who want the functionality; do we > > have to force the feature on them and break their URLs? > > > > They can do it on their own time. This is something that I suspect will > just be a mess forever. Some using User: some leaving it at their old > /wiki/WikiName. I think I'm not understanding something. Here is the main question. :) * Are we going to break the URLs of the pattern wiki/UserName in the migration? Once migrated, yeah, we can have people manually migrate them over. If I were the Wiki Master[1], I would enforce the rule that people had to migrate them, by hunting down and nagging people to death. Or occasionally doing it for them. - Karsten [1] I need something to do with my free time after retiring from Docs leader :) -- Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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