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by fpoling 39 days ago
Wikipedia web server treats anything after /wiki/ literally as the name of the article.

So en.wikipedia.org/wiki/// is the article about C++ style comments
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chrismorgan 39 days ago
Oh, magnificent. Lovely high-profile example to add about empty path segments being meaningful.
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morganastra 38 days ago
it looks like it goes to a disambiguation page for what "//" could refer to now (C++ style comments being the top entry), but that's delightful!
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chii 39 days ago
i wonder if it ought to be `/wiki/%2F%2F` instead...
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