Standard wiki URI: Difference between revisions

In HTML and XML referring to articles in the [[GFDL text corpus]] '''standard wiki URI''' is stated as follows:

Only the "/wiki/" is constant.  These are relatively easy to remember, e.g. one can easily rattle off [[URI]]s of the form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'''troll''' where only '''troll''' must change to find some other article.

Supporting these radically simplifies [[wiki linking]].  Unfortunately neither [[MediaWiki]] nor [[GetWiki]] imposes them as a default.  They really should.  One theory is that they do not do so because [[Wikimedia]] wishes its own URIs to be stable, but those of other users of [[MediaWiki]] software to be ever-changing, and thus difficult to remember.  This makes it more likely that URIs of Wikipedia pages will be coded into many HTML and XML pages, which helps them advance their claim that they are sole reliable stewards of the [[GFDL text corpus]].  [[GetWiki]] developers in general resist that claim and are far more likely to implement the '''standard''' as a default, and indeed to work towards [[wikitext standard]]s in general.