[p2pu-dev] rewrite url for courses whose name has changed

Philipp Schmidt phi.schmidt at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 14:33:23 UTC 2011


Joe is right, but the URLs will likely be too long anyway for
reasonable tweeting. If there are other reasons why we need to have a
"course" or "group" in the URL, then group is my preference. Otherwise
no objection to loosing it. P

On Wednesday, 30 March 2011, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "group" is generic
> it adds no information --
> unnecessary
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jessy Kate <jessy.cowansharp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We can use URL shorteners for that... :)
>>
>> -- Sent from my phone
>>
>> On Mar 30, 2011 4:42 AM, "Joe Corneli" <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 5 chars of filler?
>>> Not good for tweeting about.
>>> Zap the field instead
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Could we remove "course" from the URL and use "group" instead. It is
>>>> more ambiguous and let's us go into different directions in the
>>>> future. Course has a very specific meaning.
>>>>
>>>> P
>>>>
>>>> On 29 March 2011 12:17, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com> wrote:
>>>>> I agree with stian on this one, urls should be based on an ID with the
>>>>> course name stringified after
>>>>> http://example.com/course/1234/{WILDCARD FOR SEO}
>>>>> If the course name changes, the wildcard will change but all links (old
>>>>> and
>>>>> new) will always work thanks to the ID. Scribd and a bunch of other
>>>>> sites do
>>>>> it this way.
>>>>> --
>>>>> contact info:
>>>>> http://www.johndbritton.com
>>>>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now after the course is created the url does not change. --
>>>>>> Added a ticket for this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/42-rewrite-url-for-courses-whose-name-has-changed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>    Zuzel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > I think the new way (committed to source, but not to the running
>>>>>> > version
>>>>>> > yet) is a URL with a unique ID and a long name, lke
>>>>>> > new.p2pu.org/en-US/34034/mathematics-on-computers. That way we can
>>>>>> > change
>>>>>> > the name easily, without breaking URLs, and we won't have a problem
>>>>>> > with
>>>>>> > name collisions when we run courses again and again, etc.
>>>>>> > Stian
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 13:00, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/joes-life/
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> should presumably be
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/mathematics-on-computers/
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