[mb-style] Wikipedia AR using urls with hash
Olivier
viapanda at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 00:53:49 UTC 2008
Is there anything in the documentation discouraging the use of Wacky
urls pointing to in-page anchors?
eg: like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bonham#In_The_City_.2B_In_The_Woods
If not, what do you think about their use?
IMHO, we should prevent their use (and state so in the docs), for the
following reasons:
* the anchors are highly likely to change (a lot more than the page
URL), making these a maintenance problem
* they are unusable for non-human consumers, finding themselves with
content essentially not matching the entity it's linked to
* it does change the meaning of the AR from "has a wikipedia page" to
"has some content in a wikipedia page"...
Regards,
- Olivier
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