<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Srikanth,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span> 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.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>- Sundar</span></div><div> </div><div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new
york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:24 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs<br></font><br><div id="yiv247610488">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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].</div>
<div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://interwikiredir.appspot.com/or/Chennai">interwikiredir.appspot.com/or/Chennai</a> will redirect to Chennai article in Oriya Wikipedia. We have also made this available as part of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tawp.in">tawp.in</a> shorturl domain, hence <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tawp.in/en/ArticleNameInEnglish">tawp.in/en/ArticleNameInEnglish</a> 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!.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Feedback welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl</a></div><div>[2] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://gist.github.com/1140266">https://gist.github.com/1140266</a></div>
<div><div>[3] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://interwikiredir.appspot.com/">interwikiredir.appspot.com</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://srik.me">http://srik.me</a><br>
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