The URLs are long and ugly

[HazardJ]

The URL of a page has something like this in it:
/index.php?action=source&file=

That is not beautiful, and distracts from understanding the content.

The only part that is meaningful is "source" which is the type of view of the page. The alternatives are (or should be) "doc" (for rendered) "edit" for ..., editcomplete, print, etc. It would be great to get the URLs whittled down to only meaningful elements: the file name and the view. I presume that view could come after the file name (as in Google docs and Mediawiki), but don't know if that would feel better or worse. My sense is that it would feel better, but someone else would have to push for that before I would think it worth experimenting. Maybe @zmon could give us a hand?