[OpenID] The Wiki

[Chris Messina]

We can simply make pages with the traditional underscore names that
textually redirect to the new location. We can tag these pages as "redirect"
in case PBWiki ever provides an automated mechanism for doing redirects.
CamelCase also is not natively supported in PBWiki. Turns out regular humans
find such formatted text somewhat illegible.

Chris



On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:57 PM, David Recordon <drecordon at sixapart.com>wrote:

> 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?)
>>
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