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 :)
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