Hello,
The discussion took place among the developers. We created the first URLs to test the system, and if you look carefully you may find some Easter eggs ;) The next URLs that will be created, starting on April 11th, will follow an incrementing pattern https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P8300, which means with time the URLs will get longer. We don't plan to reserve other URLs, and it won't be possible for the users to choose the URL they generate.
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 16:28, Sergey Leschina mail@putnik.ws wrote:
Great news!
I can not find where pre-created links were discussed. But perhaps it is worth creating 2-character links to Wikipedia sections by languages, and reserve rest 2-character links for the future. In this case, all new links for users will be 3 characters and longer.
ср, 3 апр. 2019 г. в 17:08, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de:
Thanks for your enthusiastic feedback!
James: none of them is supported so far. This could evolve in the future, it will be the choice of WMF's Core Platform Team, who will maintain the feature.
Andrew: for the integration in the QS, no defined date so far, but some tickets to follow if you want to learn more: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219968 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112715 :)
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 15:56, Andrew Gray andrew@generalist.org.uk wrote:
Hi Lea,
This is great! I'm so pleased to see it's finally coming out.
Is there a time frame for it coming to query, or just "when it's ready"? (I have no idea if this last step is a big one or a small one...)
Andrew.
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 13:16, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
(apologies for crost-posting - feel free to share this announcement in
your communities)
Hello all,
Having a service providing short links exclusively for the Wikimedia
projects is a community request that came up regularly on Phabricator or in community discussions.
After a common work of developers from the Wikimedia Foundation and
Wikimedia Germany, we are now able to provide such a feature, it will be enabled on April 11th on Meta.
What is the URL Shortener doing?
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create
short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks or on wikis.
The feature can be accessed from Meta wiki on the special page
m:Special:URLShortener (will be enabled on April 11th). On this page, you will be able to enter any web address from a service hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to copy it and reuse it anywhere.
The format of the URL is w.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and
numbers. You can already test an example: w.wiki/3 redirects to wikimedia.org.
What are the limitations and security measures?
In order to assure the security of the links, and to avoid shortlinks
pointing to external or dangerous websites, the URL shortener is restricted to services hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes for example: all Wikimedia projects, Meta, Mediawiki, the Wikidata Query Service, Phabricator. (see the full list here)
In order to avoid abuse of the tool, there is a rate limit: logged-in
users can create up to 50 links every 2 minutes, and the IPs are limited to 10 creations per 2 minutes.
Where will this feature be available?
In order to enforce the rate limit described above, the page
Special:URLShortener will only be enabled on Meta. You can of course create links or redirects to this page from your home wiki.
The next step we’re working on is to integrate the feature directly in
the interface of the Wikidata Query Service, where bit.ly is currently used to generate short links for the results of the queries. For now, you will have to copy and paste the link of your query in the Meta page.
Documentation and requests
If you have any question or requests, feel free to leave a comment
under this Phabricator task
The user documentation is available here: please help us to translate
it in your language!
See also the technical documentation of the extension
Thanks a lot to all the developers and volunteers who helped moving
forward with this feature, and making it available today for everyone in the Wikimedia projects!
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