Thread:Project:Support desk/Is http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid=2809853 an expoloit or can this be considered as a legitimate stable redirect ?

Hi! Searching for the shortest urls for wikis using scripts other then Latin was a longtime nightmare. urls using the "wgArticleId" from "mw.config.set" as http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2809853 have been an intermediate solution to avoid long properly url encoded links.

A few days ago I noticed that links as http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid=2809853 can also be used nowadays. The url does not use "w/index.php" any more.

Question: Can MadiaWiki assure that these shorter urls are legitimete, stable, well documented and used as testcases before any further release is submited to svn? Thank you very much for your future answers. gangleri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 19:10, 29 March 2012 (UTC)