Question

FB wiki pages always have a URL like /default.asp?W6 Is there any way to have the URLs rewritten to the actual page name? This would greatly promote usability the wiki for publicly posted communities?

At a minimum it would be helpful if the page name / title could be appended to the standard URL like they are here on this site.

Examples

/default.asp?W6
/default.asp?welcome_to_this_wiki
/default.asp?W6_welcome_to_this_wiki

While most valuable for internal communications due to seamless integration with cases, both discussion posts and wiki pages seem to lack always those last 5% of usibility for public communities or publicly facing support resources.

Case FC1898557

Answer 1

I think this is an excellent idea. I have opened a feature request case for one of two possibilities:

1. Link by page name or added to the W123 format as a FogBugz feature
2. A plugin interface to allow for URL rewriting, which would enable a plugin to provide this specific functionality

If you would like to see this feature implemented, please up-vote the question above.

Answer 2

It looks like this feature request was made over a year ago. Are there any updates as to if/when this will be implemented?

We have a similar request. We have a public wiki that is the landing page of our FB site. We also created a separate sub-domain specific for accessing that public wiki (e.g. http://wiki.somewhere.com).

We would like to use URL-rewriting to automatically search for tags that are entered as part of the URL. For example, suppose we have the tags "abc" and "xyz". We would like for someone to be able to visit:

http://wiki.somewhere.com/abc

and have it automatically search the public wiki for the tag "abc". So the URL rewrite would essentially rewrite that URL as:

http://wiki.somewhere.com/default.asp?ixWiki=XXX&pg=pgSearchWiki&qWiki=tag:%22abc%22

We tried setting up IIRF (http://iirf.codeplex.com/) to do this ourselves, but FB does not seem to play well with IIRF.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we could accomplish this?

Answer 3

Apache has mod_rewrite feature which makes URL rewrites easy, but I am not sure about Windows Servers.

Personally, I like shorter URLs. I can easily type it out or use quicksearch to reference a specific page entry. The downside to longer URLs is that anything past 70+ characters can break in some e-mail clients.

I think it is also debatable at this point whether there is a tangible ranking improvement with keyword stuffing in the URL vs having good unique content.

Answer 4

I vote up this feature. I personally get laughed at when I send out links https://company.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W1034 instead of https://company.fogbugz.com/wiki/Maven_Configuration_Guidelines. I usually don't get into the argument about pretty urls because I don't have a good answer as why this has not been implemented.

Until the feature gets implemented do you guys have a template that I could send to people who are making fun of me for using a wiki without pretty urls?