History: TikiWikiRewriteRule

a very wise post from Loyd Wood :

for the upcoming version, you say:
"Search-engine friendliness: Re-write rules added so your Tiki objects
can be accessed in a search-engine friendly way"

What would it take to provide better naming of tiki pages?
wiki/RandomSubjectName
is far better expressed as
wiki/Random-Subject-Name

so that e.g. google can pick up on the individual words and index them
with high priority. Most 80sTrendyAppleCaps wikis fare badly in search
engines as a result; the hyphenated form should imo be the default,
and that would work better with typos and Apache's mod_speling too.

thanks.

L.

here is the rewrite activated on tikiwiki.org (08-17-2003)

  RewriteEngine On

  # direct one-word access
  RewriteRule ^/articles$             /tiki-view_articles.php                   [L]
  RewriteRule ^/blogs$                /tiki-list_blogs.php                      [L]
  RewriteRule ^/categories$           /tiki-browse_categories.php               [L]
  RewriteRule ^/charts$               /tiki-list_charts.php                     [L]
  RewriteRule ^/chat$                 /tiki-chat.php                            [L]
  RewriteRule ^/contact$              /tiki-contact.php                         [L]
  RewriteRule ^/directories$          /tiki-directory_browse.php                [L]
  RewriteRule ^/eph$                  /tiki-eph.php                             [L]
  RewriteRule ^/faqs$                 /tiki-list_faqs.php                       [L]
  RewriteRule ^/files$                /tiki-file_galleries.php                  [L]
  RewriteRule ^/forums$               /tiki-forums.php                          [L]
  RewriteRule ^/images$               /tiki-galleries.php                       [L]
  RewriteRule ^/galleries$            /tiki-galleries.php                       [L]
  RewriteRule ^/games$                /tiki-list_games.php                      [L]
  RewriteRule ^/my$                   /tiki-my_tiki.php                         [L]
  RewriteRule ^/newsletters$          /tiki-newsletters.php                     [L]
  RewriteRule ^/quizzes$              /tiki-list_quizzes.php                    [L]
  RewriteRule ^/stats$                /tiki-stats.php                           [L]
  RewriteRule ^/surveys$              /tiki-list_surveys.php                    [L]
  RewriteRule ^/trackers$             /tiki-list_trackers.php                   [L]
  RewriteRule ^/irc$                  /tiki-irc_logs.php                        [L]
  RewriteRule ^/mobile$               /tiki-mobile.php                          [L]
  RewriteRule ^/wml$                  /tiki-mobile.php                          [L]

  # access any object by its numeric identifier
  RewriteRule ^/article([0-9]+)       /tiki-read_article.php?articleId=$1       [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/art([0-9]+)           /tiki-read_article.php?articleId=$1       [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/cat([0-9]+)           /tiki-browse_categories.php?parentId=$1   [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/blog([0-9]+)          /tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=$1             [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/chart([0-9]+)         /tiki-view_chart.php?chartId=$1           [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/directory([0-9]+)     /tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=$1      [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/eph([0-9]+)           /tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=$1      [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/faq([0-9]+)           /tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=$1               [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/file([0-9]+)          /tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=$1  [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/dl([0-9]+)            /tiki-download_file.php?fileId=$1         [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/forum([0-9]+)         /tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=$1           [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/image([0-9]+)         /tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=$1     [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/gallery([0-9]+)       /tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=$1     [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/newsletter([0-9]+)    /tiki-newsletters.php?nlId=$1             [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/quiz([0-9]+)          /tiki-take_quiz.php?quizId=$1             [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/survey([0-9]+)        /tiki-take_survey.php?surveyId=$1         [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/tracker([0-9]+)       /tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=$1       [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/wiki-([A-Za-z0-9]+)   /tiki-index.php?page=$1                   [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/page-([A-Za-z0-9]+)   /tiki-index.php?page=$1                   [QSA,L]
  RewriteRule ^/irc([0-9]+)           /tiki-irc_logs.php?focus=$1               [QSA,L]

  # todo add support for all characters allowed in a Wiki name
  # make sure this is the last rule!
  RewriteRule /([-_\+A-Za-z0-9]+)$    /tiki-index.php?page=$1                   [QSA,L]