[dokuwiki] Re: Patch attached: Optionally add a filetype to wikipage urls, e.g. .html to look like static html

  • From: Helmut Tischer <htischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:20:35 +0100

Hello,

Paul wrote:
> One advantage of adding an extension is that if you do a "wget
> http://wiki.../some_file.html";
> or curl etc, that it gets saved automatically with the right extention, ready 
> to be clicked on when presented in a list by a e.g. windows explorer.

thank you for supporting the optional file extension.

As said I completely agree with Andy's and Sander's technical arguing
about mime headers etc. This is for the experienced DokuWiki Admins
and Programmer's on this mailing list.

Sander wrote:
> To be nice to wary users.

That's my point. So let's leave the technology now:

Content Authors care about attracting readers, even if the readers are
not technically educated. That's what made the "http" to something
what everyone wants to use - and they even keep on calling it "www" !

And a reader who is confused about what the link is about is a lost reader.
And a reader who took a note about the link, but does not get the
syntax right quickly, is a lost frequent reader.
And if a reader cites the link the wrong way, we loose even the
reader's readers.

To calm down the emotion:
The default behaviour of DokuWiki remains still the same for those who
like the minimum URL.
Only the Admin Plugin shows an extra item, which optionally allows to
make "nice URLs" "more nice".

One further note:
For media files even DokuWiki uses the file extension to produce the
correct mime header, and DokuWiki behaves surprising (not for Dokuwiki
experts of course), if one mixes up
example.com/namespace/namespaceorfile with example.com/namespaceorfile/

Helmut
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