Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Extension:ShortUrl[0] is almost on verge of deployment[1]. We hope to see light of day soon.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Till now on Tamil Wikipedia, we have been using ShortUrl solution[2] developed by Chineese Wikimedian Mountain along with the interwiki redirector app[3] that I had written. Though the code was available it required someone to poke around to get it deployed for other languages. YuviPanda has now written a python port of both the url re-directors into a single app. Code[4]. Now it is possible for any wiki to use this feature with very little effort. All one needs to do is, buy a domain name(dont use GoDaddy, Jimbo does like it :D ), point it to our server, copy paste and localize 4 words in the userscript[5], add it to common.js in their wikipedia.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Though the extension might make the existing ShortUrl solution obsolete, its still required for us in Tamil wiki since there are few hundred links already used online to avoid deadlinks. </div><div><br>

</div><div>Yet another 1 day hack by Yuvi! </div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl</a></div><div>[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1450">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1450</a></div>

<div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/mountain/shortify">https://github.com/mountain/shortify</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://interwikiredir.appspot.com/">http://interwikiredir.appspot.com/</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://github.com/yuvipanda/wikishortipy">https://github.com/yuvipanda/wikishortipy</a></div>

<div>[5] <a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/shorturl.js">http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/shorturl.js</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br>
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