questions from wiki migration mtg

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 10:56 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry I couldn't attend today.  Here's some stuff I dug from the IRC
> > > log:
> > >
> > > * UserName => User:username ... ouch
> > >   - anything we can do with mod_rewrite?
> > >     - some of these pages are well indexed and referenced
> > >   - any reason we cannot migrate all the wiki/UserName to an equivalent
> > > wiki/UserName and let people source that to fill out their User:username
> > > page.
> >
> > Nothing exists that maps wikiname to username.  wikiname was a poor choice
> > and now we're paying for it :-/
> >
> > >     - I understand that User:foobar has special meaning in MediaWiki and
> > > agree it is worth the hassle for those who want the functionality; do we
> > > have to force the feature on them and break their URLs?
> > >
> >
> > They can do it on their own time.  This is something that I suspect will
> > just be a mess forever.  Some using User: some leaving it at their old
> > /wiki/WikiName.
>
> I think I'm not understanding something.  Here is the main question. :)
>
> * Are we going to break the URLs of the pattern wiki/UserName in the
> migration?
>

No.

	-Mike