[OpenID] The Wiki

[David Recordon]

I think I managed to make a page that used underscores instead.  I see  
no problem with moving to hyphens, but if we can make the old URLs  
still work (even if their just an empty PBWiki page with a redirect to  
the new hyphen page) then that would be a good thing.

--David

On Dec 14, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Chris Messina wrote:

> 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?)
>
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chris Messina
> Citizen-Participant &
>  Open Technology Advocate-at-Large
> factoryjoe.com # diso-project.org
> citizenagency.com # vidoop.com
> This email is:   [ ] bloggable    [X] ask first   [ ] private
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/attachments/20081214/ff2f808a/attachment-0002.htm>