A heads-up that plans for a WMF-owned URL shortener are going to be a topic at this IRC meeting tomorrow, as that's an idea which we have been discussing in the social media team in the past, too (although IIRC that was mostly before t.co became the mandatory URL shortener on Twitter). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sumana Harihareswara &lt;sumanah(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:58 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] short RfC review meeting Wednesday: five quick decisions To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; This Wednesday, 2100-21:30 UTC, let's have a thirty-minute RfC review meeting to check on a few proposals to consolidate, and whether a few authors have done their next steps from the last few months. (If people want to answer these questions onlist/onwiki that's fine too.) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-03-12 I have some open questions: [...] 2. URL shortener< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener>(and URL Shortener Service< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener_service_f… probably to be consolidated). Do we have the implementation details Tim wanted? [...] We'll talk in #wikimedia-office on Freenode, at 2100 UTC on March 12: http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=2950159,100,524901,5128581&… Moscow: 1am Thursday 13 March Berlin: 22:00 12 March New York: 5pm March 12 San Francisco: 2pm March 12 Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media