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“ By making the documents accessible by search engines through a standard protocol, you no longer even need to know the right URL for the thing you want. Just type a few choice words into Google and boom! back comes just the thing you wanted in a quarter of a second. ”

“ Once the URLs have been harvested, some filtering software companies use automated key word analysis tools to evaluate the content and/or features of Web sites or pages accessed via a particular URL and to tentatively prioritize or categorize them. ”

“ Start the url with the communications protocol, e.g. http://. title: Title of online item. This title will appear as the citation itself, hyperlinked to the URL. Certain characters must be replaced with their HTML numeric reference to be used in the title. The character " [" must be replaced with "[", "] " with "]", and "|" (vertical bar) with "|". Optional parameters author parameters author Use if specific individuals (rather than large organizations) are named as writing the page. Use the publisher field to report the organization that controls the website. ”

“ But if your main nouns are subdirectories themselves, as with the user pages on Twitter and Delicious, it might make sense to break this rule. (More on this in a bit.) )
Numbers work well in cases where pages get created automatically (maybe you’re importing a lot of stuff, or you generate pages in response to emails or incidentally for other actions) or their titles tend to change, but in other cases you might prefer what’s called a slug. A slug is just a little bit of text that looks good in a URL, like “wrt/dfw” or “beyond-flash”. ”

“ URLs are everywhere. Most obviously, they appear at the top of the browser window while people are using your website, but they also appear in a myriad of other contexts: in the status bar when someone has the mouse over a link, in search results, in emails, in blogs, read over the phone, written down on napkins, listed in bibliographies, printed on business cards and t-shirts and mousepads and bumper stickers. ”

“ URLs shouldn’t change (and if they do change, the old ones should redirect to the new ones) so they should only contain information about the page that never changes. This leads to some obvious requirements.
These were most famously pointed out by the Web’s inventor, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (b. 8 June 1955, London, England) . During a miraculous Christmas break in 1990 that reminds one of Einstein’s annus mirabilis,Tim not only invented the URL, the HTML format, and the HTTP protocol, but also wrote the first web browser, WYSIWYG web editor, and web server. ”

“ If we exclude links associated with the "focus sites," then in each namespace, there are 637,654 external links in the main namespace, 5,277 external links in the page namespace, 287,024 external links in the author namespace, and 1,662 external links in the index namespace. This analysis did not look into how many of these links are dead, since that would require visiting each URL individually, which would take a very long time for hundreds of thousands of URLs. However, there is no guarantee that any website on the Internet stays online, and any website can go offline at any time. ”

“ Unfortunately, many tools for building web applications try to hide such questions from you, preventing you from designing URLs at all. Instead, they present their own interface to the programmer, from which they generate URLs by making up random numbers or storing cookies or worse. (Nowadays, with Ajax and Flash, some don’t provide URLs at all, making a site hell for anyone who wants to send something cool they found to their friends.) ”

“ But we actually find even in the Wikipedia context, which is written by human beings, that there are some websites that even when you type in the right thing and you submit and you get the information you want, you cannot link directly to that. And so someone who is writing something, trying to explain something, and they want to link to a particular statute or a particular regulation or a particular piece of information that has been published by the government, if they are not able to cut and paste that URL and put it into Wikipedia, then even with a human involved it is very frustrating. ”

“ This solves their immediate problem of figuring out what to write on the t-shirt, but it doesn’t solve any of the more fundamental problems, and it doesn’t make it possible for everyone else to make their own t-shirts or send out their own emails.
If your tools don’t let you design your URLs, you need to get better tools. Nobody would dare do graphic design with software that didn’t let them change the font or paint with a brush that could only make squares. Yet some people think it’s perfectly fine to sacrifice control over their URLs, the most fundamentally important part of your website. ”

“ Well, we've been through a lot together, you and I. We've built up an application from its humble URLs to its high-falutin' notions of democracy. Along the way, we've made its world safe for robots, query systems, researchers, and Richard Stallman. But how do we get from this kind of website to the grand vision of the Semantic Web we've heard so much about?
Let's start by realizing that just being on the Web is an amazing thing. URLs provide a unified addressing scheme for any document—a pretty miraculous thing. ”

“ Designing URLs is the most important part of building a web application and has to be done first. Encoded in their design are a whole series of implicit assumptions about what your site is about, how it is structured, and how it should be used ”

“ In some cases, whole Web sites are blocked because the filtering companies focus only on the content of the home page that is accessed by entering the root URL. Entire Web sites containing multiple Web pages are commonly categorized without human review of each individual page on that site. Web sites that may contain multiple Web pages and that require authentication or payment for access are commonly categorized based solely on a human reviewer's evaluation of the pages that may be viewed prior to reaching the authentication or payment page. ”

“ In looking at how Wikipedia links to Wikisource pages via templates, I have found a few things to improve; but the situation with EB1911 is a bit more complex. The obvious template for what I'd want is {{1911}} over there; but the construction is somewhat awkward. For other things (DNB, Catholic Encyclopedia and a couple I have set up recently) you just pipe the template with the article name. The template {{1911}} allows one to put in any URL ”

“ It adds elements of difficulty when that is done on other internal pages. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:49, 15 May 2013 (UTC) I did not know of, and have not seen, any rule (is this a preference or a rule?) existing where people on enWS were not supposed to use a full url on a Talk Page. In the past when I worked on articles on Wikipedia I never used full urls or what I would call an open or closed url. That's easy to change but I know of no enWs rule about it. —Maury (talk) 10:33, 15 May 2013 (UTC) Clearly people are too polite to you. ”

“ Discussion Discussion started on Wikisource Scriptorium I think we should amend our policy on redirects. Currently we delete almost all redirects, especially in the main namespace, as unneeded. This generally occurs when we move pages. However, this may be causing a lot of broken links and general linkrot; potentially causing a lot of reputational damage to Wikisource. People following a link from a forum, blog post, reddit, tweet, or whatever should reasonably expect to find content at the other end. What they will often get if they use a pre-move URL is an error message. ”

“ But, of course, if you do bad things like use session cookies and ignore the rules about GET and POST, the server cache will just screw everything up. (Notice that only GETs can be cached; you wouldn’t want to cache the result of something like adding a new blog post or the next blog post would never get added!)
GET and POST are, of course, part of the next piece of architecture, which Fielding calls “Uniform Interfaces.” Every web app works the same basic way: there are a series of URLs which you perform methods on. ”

“ Whatever the reason, they end up rearranging their files and changing their directory structure, breaking all their URLs. Even if you’re just rearranging the site’s look, it takes a lot of discipline not to move the actual files around, probably more than you’re going to have. And setting up redirects for everything is so difficult that you’re just not going to bother. ”

“ All do it for the same basic reason: they’re software for building Web apps that want to hide the Web from you. They want to make it so that you just write some software normally and it magically becomes a web app, without you having to do any of the work of thinking up URLs or following REST. Well, you may get an application you can use through a browser out of it, but you won’t get a web app. ”

“ Selection seems to be based on the ability to secure rights for electronic publication.
Simple keyword, first line or title, and author searches can be limited by publication date, publisher, gender, date during a poet’s lifetime, and nationality and to notes. Searchers can also browse author and title, keyword, or first-line lists of the contents of the database. Results appear in ascending alphabetical order and cannot be re-sorted. Citations (but not the full text of poems) can be marked for e-mailing, downloading, or printing; each citation includes a durable URL to the full text. ”

“ The key to either method is really making sure all the pages are there before uploading something to Commons & and that usually means downloading a work locally to inspect it properly. It seems the temptation to go right from URL to Commons is too great to take the time out to verify the source file's structural integrity first. Anyway, just ask me if you need more feedback/specifics on any of this. -- George Orwell III (talk) 04:15, 22 November 2013 (UTC) Thanks; I'll try it out next time! --xensyriaT 04:20, 22 November 2013 (UTC) Your change tag: fix dbl redirect Hello. ”

“ Of the various commercially available blocking products, network-based products are the ones generally marketed to institutions, such as public libraries, that provide Internet access through multiple terminals. Filtering programs function in a fairly simple way. When an Internet user requests access to a certain Web site or page, either by entering a domain name or IP address into a Web browser, or by clicking on a link, the filtering software checks that domain name or IP address against a previously compiled "control list" that may contain up to hundreds of thousands of URLs. ”

“ So with Twitter, a user’s page is at:
http://twitter.com/aaronsw while their status messages get URLs like:
http://twitter.com/aaronsw/statuses/918239758 (Notes: The “statuses” bit is redundant and the number way too long.)
But things get more complicated when your nouns have more complex relationships. Take Delicious, where users post links under various tags. How should things be structured? ”

“ All tertiary URLs for United Nations web sites should be communicated to the Working Group on Internet Matters, which will monitor the use of these URLs for the main United Nations web site. Lower-level URLs, such as http://www.un.org/works, should be thematically meaningful, and abbreviations and acronyms not widely used should be avoided. ”

“ To the extent that filtering software is effective in identifying URLs of Web pages containing obscenity or child pornography, libraries may use filtering software as a tool for identifying URLs in their Internet use logs that fall within these categories, without requiring patrons to use filtering software. ”

“ Linking from an index requires - Title/subpage# [anchor] | [text] - the 'anchor' and the 'text' are the page number given in the scan and adjusted at our Index. If I find an explicit internal reference in a work, I create an anchor to link it; this is not required with a work's index because the link to the Page:namespace creates an anchor in mainspace - the actual page number. Sure keeps things simple, any offset and other palaver in fixed in place and the rest looks after itself. Creating these links within a work, in mainspace, is marvellous and well worth the labour and bits of code. ”

“ "SIRE, a fresh dispatch."
"Whence?"
"From Tomsk?"
"Is the wire cut beyond that city?"
"Yes, sire, since yesterday."
"Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, General, and keep me informed of all that occurs." ”

“ No; you can't construct an external link that invokes a template; the only way to ensure external links continue to work is to leave a redirect behind. What would the consequences of a move be? If you leave a redirect from the old template location to the new template location, all links will continue to work. I'm assuming your plan for the subpage /Pagelinks is that they be auto-generated by a script determining how the index is currently invoked to its Title/subpages, avoiding multiple uses of the same Page:space and so on, but will it build deeplinks to works that are underconstruction? ”

“ The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one—at least, no male person—ever consulted works of reference except in search of pornography. As soon as you approached she pierced you through and through with a flash of her pince-nez and let you know that your dirty secret was no secret from her. After all, all works of reference are pornographical, except perhaps Whitaker’s Almanack. You can put even the Oxford Dictionary to evil purposes by looking up words like —— and ——. ”

“ If somebody is using a domain name that is confusingly similar to your trademark and trying to steal traffic from you, you can get the domain name taken from them. Your, your listeners are probably familiar with these cybersquatting sites where if you um, pick any website that you would really want to go to and forget to put the dot between the www and the domain, chances are you’re going to find yourself at a website that’s going to be not even close to what you were looking for. ”