Shorter Wiki URLs

Tordanik · 2012-03-24T17:31:03.000Z

Currently, OSM wiki URLs are quite long by default. However, there are two ways of shortening them: Replacing the openstreetmap.org domain with osm.org, and leaving out the “wiki/” before the article name. So for example http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM can become http://wiki.osm.org/JOSM.

It is clear that we are using openstreetmap.org as our primary domain, so the osm.org would only be used in case of space constraints, e.g. on Twitter. But what I don’t understand is why the “wiki/” is in the URLs at all. It doesn’t seem to serve any useful purpose as the wiki already has its own subdomain.

So, what I’d like to discuss here: Do you agree that using URLs like http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/JOSM would be better than the current wiki URLs? And what are the technical problems, if any, preventing us from implementing this?

_i · 2012-03-24T17:52:09.000Z

Same for me here. Never really understood why 2x Wiki is necessary, but accepted it anyway.

Tordanik · 2012-04-06T16:11:01.000Z

I’ve asked for this configuration change on the “Talk:Wiki” page now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki#Shorter_Wiki_URLs