On 2/21/06, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote:
In making such changes, please bear in mind "Cool URIs Don't Change":
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
This isn't to say "don't", but where possible, provide some redirection from the old name to the new name.
To be effective, the web relies on stable links, so that references from elsewhere don't fade away. In the end, it is publishers own (presumed) goals in publishing to the Web that are compromised if URIs become inaccessible.
Although, while the wiki is still so new, it's unlikely that there are already links to it so there shouldn't be any harm in moving pages created before there was a clear naming policy established. Furthermore, I think that pages that were initially created by mistake or with misspellings (e.g., "Perforamnce") are fair game for deletion. Davor