[pydotorg-www] Removing /moin/ suffix from wiki.python.org (Was: Internal Server Error while reverting spam)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > 7 days have passed since last message, so I presume there are no
> > more objections to do
> > required configuration changes.  Of course, it will be more obvious if
> > people could directly
> > say they are o.k. with it.  Should we leave this open for another 7 days?
>
> I'm still -1 on the change. It only helps people typing the URL and you
> can get the same effect of saving those 5 letters by having
> wiki.python.org
> redirect such URLs to the /moin/ instance, without any complicated URL
> redirection setup. Browsers don't really care whether the URL is long
> or short and neither do mice :-)


I find these -1 reasons are funny. =) I can repeat the counter-arguments
that shorter URLs are better not only in address bars, but also for posting
links and navigating search results, but the point is:

- this configuration change is a one-time, standard, common, not-a-hack
solution for a traditional problem, that MoinMoin is designed to resolve,
and it is a small price of admin's time to make a small group of people,
who also care about Python wiki feel a little bit more happy

Common - you don't really think that the proposed redirection setup is
complicated, do you? =) If some questions are left unanswered or the
answers are vague - just repeat them, so we can clarify and remove the
confusion.
-- 
anatoly t.
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