Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Interwiki map suggestion

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On a side note, Sourceforge is apparently going to move away from
Geocrawler, which IMO is an awful mail archiver anyway. PhpWiki could do
it better, given infinite programmer time, hardware resources and caffeine
;-)

~swain


On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> 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.
>
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