Wiki suffixes and other annoyances

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 09:58:43 UTC 2005


Currently our wiki does some very annoying things with urls.

1.
-Clicking on a page in a category gets you this url:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUGettingIntoIt?highlight=%28CategoryMOTU%29
it should get me
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUGettingIntoIt
as I already known that I am looking for categoryMOTU, I just came from there

-After you edit and save a page, you get:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/REVUDevelopment#preview
I am not reviewing a page, dammit!

-Then you click to get rid of the above message and get this url instead:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/REVUDevelopment?action=show
Right!

-Searching highlights the term.
This is somewhat useful, but also really annoying. Thoughts on keeping it?

So basically, only ?action=edit should continue to exist, but it shows
a useful state.

2. Where you have gone track. That is what the back button my browser
is for. Truly yes.

3. CamelCase and why dropping it leads to cleaner code.
Case is point:
CategoryDocumentation vs ["CategoryDocumenation"]
those are actually the same thing, but it looks bad and is confusing.

Anyway, those are my rants for now.

Thoughts?

Corey




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