<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div>--David</div><div> <br><div><div>On Dec 14, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Chris Messina wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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.<div><br></div><div>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).</div> <div><br></div><div>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":</div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/topics/there_should_be_an_officially_sanctioned_way_to_redirect_pages">http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/topics/there_should_be_an_officially_sanctioned_way_to_redirect_pages</a></div> <div><br></div><div>Chris <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Martin Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mart@degeneration.co.uk">mart@degeneration.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Chris Messina wrote:<br> > PBWiki now uses hyphens for spaces in URLs, so we can use spaces in wiki<br> > page names. Therefore I've moved this page to:<br> ><br> > <a href="https://openid.pbwiki.com/Email-Based-Identifier-Exploration" target="_blank">https://openid.pbwiki.com/Email-Based-Identifier-Exploration</a><br> ><br> <br> </div>It's a shame that they chose hyphens over underscores, or else it'd be<br> pretty easy to preserve the URLs on the current wiki when pointing<br> <a href="http://wiki.openid.net" target="_blank">wiki.openid.net</a> to pbwiki.<br> <br> This is now the third time we've moved the OpenID wiki and needlessly<br> changed all of the URLs.<br> <br> Is there a way we can configure PBWiki to use underscores instead of<br> hypens? (or failing that, another wiki hosting service that supports<br> OpenID and uses MediaWiki?)<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> _______________________________________________<br> general mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br> <a href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general" target="_blank">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Technology Advocate-at-Large<br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org">diso-project.org</a><br> <a href="http://citizenagency.com">citizenagency.com</a> # <a href="http://vidoop.com">vidoop.com</a><br>This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>