[Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Srikanth,

 Good work. I liked this tool as a tester when you sent to me. Apart from the ease of keying in from mobile browsers, this has the advantage of being a short url that'll indicate what the target link is about.

- Sundar
 
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture


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>From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>
>To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:24 PM
>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs
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>Hi all,
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>A few days back, there was discussion around ShortUrl[1]. I have made another small tool(code[2]) which takes English Wiki article name and redirects to the language Wikipedia. The redirection app is live[3].
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>interwikiredir.appspot.com/or/Chennai will redirect to Chennai article in Oriya Wikipedia. We have also made this available as part of tawp.in shorturl domain, hence tawp.in/en/ArticleNameInEnglish will redirect to corresponding interwiki article in Tamil. Building this into a mediawiki extension might be useful since not all mobiles may support Indic input schemes and first step to read an article is to type the URL!.
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>Feedback welcome.
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>[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
>[2] https://gist.github.com/1140266
>[3] interwikiredir.appspot.com
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>Regards
>Srikanth.L
>http://srik.me
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