Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Interwiki map suggestion

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 15:38:41 -0000
"Lawrence Akka" <Law...@th...> wrote:

> Could we add phpwiki-talk: 
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/4037/2001/
> 
> to the interwiki map, to allow quick references to this list
> 
> eg http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/4037/2001/12/0/7271426/

Interestingly, when referring to a specific post, only the last of those
numbers in the URL seems to matter.

  e.g.  http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/1/1/1/1/1/7271426 works fine.

So adding
  phpwiki-talk http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/1/1/1/1/1/
to interwiki.map would allow phpwiki-talk:7271426.  (However, perhaps a
better moniker would be 'Geocrawler'.)

I'm not sure that's a good idea though.  Most "InterWiki" links make sense
on their own.  Consider 'Wiki:RecentChanges' and 'RFC:822'.  The text
itself makes a good title for the link --- one can tell from the text
alone what the link (is supposed to) points to.  The number in
phpwiki-talk:7271426 is pretty much an arbitrary quasi-random number.  I
guess I don't see the advantage of making it an interwiki link over just

 See [this post| http://www.geocrawler.com/...] on phpwiki-talk.

Interwiki link makes for less typing, but it seems you pretty much have to
cut-and-paste to get that message number, you might as well cut-and-paste
the whole URL.

On a related note, I also suspect the Geocrawler reindexes their archives
periodically (thus breaking all these links.)   I'm pretty sure I remember
this having happened in the past.

That's my two cents worth, at least.