On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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?
No.
-Mike