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Concise URLs deserve more praise.

Also, when you look at a site and see URLs like /wiki/index.php/MyPage it tells you about the skill level and care of the site administrators.

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And a bit about the skill of whoever made the wiki software, they need better documentation and automation to help even less-skilled admins to have clean URLs

They do have a guide for it

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

Ironically XWiki doesn't use their own short URLs: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuid...

We have one internal IT team who leaves things on non-standard ports, like https 8443 with no redirects on the standard ports. Drives me mad.

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