Στις 26-03-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:39 -0400, ο/η Mark A. Hershberger
έγραψε:
Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> writes:
I see two different use cases here: one, you have
URLs that need to be
short so they can fit in Twitter messages and the like. Here, it
doesn't matter whether the URL is human-readable, as long as it's
short. The other use case is that you want to give people a
human-rememberable URL in speech or on TV or the like, where it can't
be hyperlinked. There it should be short but ideally also
descriptive.
There is a third use case that people on zhwiki, hiwiki, arwiki and
other wikis that don't use latinate characters have: avoiding URI
encoding.
For example, <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/数学结构>, when it is copy-pasted
from Firefox, becomes
<http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6%E7%BB%93%E6%9E%84>.
The same goes for <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/मुखपृष्ठ>, which becomes
<http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0>.
From what I can see, the micro-blogging use case fits the needs of these
users nicely.
Mark.
As one of those non latin script users, it irks me no end when I see a
url that is opaque to me soley because it's been url-encoded. I would
love a "smarter" url shortener; there's no reason projects with a latin1
script should produce human readable urls while the rest of us get to
guess where links on our projects lead. Even somewhat weird
romanization is better than what we have now.
Ariel