[OpenID] The Wiki

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 00:01:23 UTC 2008


The old-school underscore URLs are still in use. New pages will likely use
hyphens. For SEO, my understanding is that hyphens are better than
underscores, but I'm not 100% certain of that.
There is an OpenID plugin for MediaWiki but I don't think that Evan Promodou
is maintaining it currently. And as we've discussed, even though we're
predominantly technologists in this community, maintaining another piece of
server software isn't exactly the best way to spend our time (nor was it
being done — and I weigh actual behavior much more heavily than I do desired
behavior).

I've made a request at PBWiki's Get Satisfaction site requesting help on
redirecting pages so at least we can minimize confusion and page
duplication. Please sign in (with your OpenID!) and express that you "have
this problem too":

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/topics/there_should_be_an_officially_sanctioned_way_to_redirect_pages

Chris

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk>wrote:

> Chris Messina wrote:
> > PBWiki now uses hyphens for spaces in URLs, so we can use spaces in wiki
> > page names. Therefore I've moved this page to:
> >
> > https://openid.pbwiki.com/Email-Based-Identifier-Exploration
> >
>
> It's a shame that they chose hyphens over underscores, or else it'd be
> pretty easy to preserve the URLs on the current wiki when pointing
> wiki.openid.net to pbwiki.
>
> This is now the third time we've moved the OpenID wiki and needlessly
> changed all of the URLs.
>
> Is there a way we can configure PBWiki to use underscores instead of
> hypens? (or failing that, another wiki hosting service that supports
> OpenID and uses MediaWiki?)
>
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