*(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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 - The user documentation is available here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language! - See also the technical documentation of the extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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!
YES, THIS IS AWESOME! Thank you guys! <3
L.
Il giorno mer 3 apr 2019 alle ore 14:14 Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de ha scritto:
(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!
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
I asked this question on the wrong thread before; will ask it here.
My assumption is that this service won’t be usable for wmflabs.org sites because that is not considered a production environment with the protections one associates with production. Is that correct?
Will it work for wikimediafoundation.org? It’s official, but hosted on a third party service, so I am not sure where it falls between “Wikimedia production” and “definitely not production.”
On Apr 3, 2019, at 6:21 AM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
YES, THIS IS AWESOME! Thank you guys! <3
L.
Il giorno mer 3 apr 2019 alle ore 14:14 Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de ha scritto:
(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!
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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!
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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!
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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!
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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!
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Sergey Leschina _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Hi!
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.
Awesome to see this long requested feature finally come to production! This is great news.
Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
Best
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Nice!
Missatge de Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com del dia dj., 11 d’abr. 2019 a les 16:18:
Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
Best
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Amir
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Would it be possible to add a "Copy" button to simplify copying the link to clipboard as other shortener services have?
Thanks, Pau.
Missatge de Pau Cabot paucabot@gmail.com del dia dv., 12 d’abr. 2019 a les 7:46:
Nice!
Missatge de Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com del dia dj., 11 d’abr. 2019 a les 16:18:
Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
Best
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Amir
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
The ticket for the copy button is here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219862 I can't make any promise regarding further development, since the Core Platform Team at WMF is taking over, but feel free to show enthusiasm in the ticket if you feel like it's a very needed feature :)
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 07:51, Pau Cabot paucabot@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to add a "Copy" button to simplify copying the link to clipboard as other shortener services have?
Thanks, Pau.
Missatge de Pau Cabot paucabot@gmail.com del dia dv., 12 d’abr. 2019 a les 7:46:
Nice!
Missatge de Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com del dia dj., 11 d’abr. 2019 a les 16:18:
Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
Best
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Amir
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Thanks, Léa!
Pau.
Missatge de Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de del dia dv., 12 d’abr. 2019 a les 8:56:
The ticket for the copy button is here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219862 I can't make any promise regarding further development, since the Core Platform Team at WMF is taking over, but feel free to show enthusiasm in the ticket if you feel like it's a very needed feature :)
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 07:51, Pau Cabot paucabot@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to add a "Copy" button to simplify copying the link to clipboard as other shortener services have?
Thanks, Pau.
Missatge de Pau Cabot paucabot@gmail.com del dia dv., 12 d’abr. 2019 a les 7:46:
Nice!
Missatge de Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com del dia dj., 11 d’abr. 2019 a les 16:18:
Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
Best
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Amir
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Hello all,
Quick update about the URL shortener: the feature is now live and included in the Query Service! Many thanks again to several developers and volunteers who worked on developing the feature and reporting issues :)
You can now create short URLs for the query (link/chain icon on the left menu of the interface) or directly to the result (once query as run, click on the text "link" on the right side of the screen).
As mentioned by Stas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#URL_shortener_on_Wikidata_Query_Service, please be aware that there is a limitation due to the security rate limit, so if you can't generate a short URL from the Query Service, try again after a few minutes.
The page on Meta to shorten a URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener Documentation & discussions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener Main ticket about the URL shortener: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 Main ticket about the integration into the Query Service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112715
If you find bugs or issues, feel free to add comments or create new tasks on Phabricator.
Cheers, Léa
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 14:14, 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi All, The Url shortener project is amazing and cool to use in various projects and training sessions, but I would like to find out if there is any way by which a Url shortener created can be tracked to see the number of traffic.
Thanks
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 11:20 Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello all,
Quick update about the URL shortener: the feature is now live and included in the Query Service! Many thanks again to several developers and volunteers who worked on developing the feature and reporting issues :)
You can now create short URLs for the query (link/chain icon on the left menu of the interface) or directly to the result (once query as run, click on the text "link" on the right side of the screen).
As mentioned by Stas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#URL_shortener_on_Wikidata_Query_Service, please be aware that there is a limitation due to the security rate limit, so if you can't generate a short URL from the Query Service, try again after a few minutes.
The page on Meta to shorten a URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener Documentation & discussions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener Main ticket about the URL shortener: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 Main ticket about the integration into the Query Service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112715
If you find bugs or issues, feel free to add comments or create new tasks on Phabricator.
Cheers, Léa
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 14:14, 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
This is so amazing! I have always used Google link shortner, but this one is even better. Pages URL for Arabic Wikipedia articles can get very long, but with this tool the links are super short.
Thank you so much!
Best, Reem
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 16:42, Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi jesseakrofi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All, The Url shortener project is amazing and cool to use in various projects and training sessions, but I would like to find out if there is any way by which a Url shortener created can be tracked to see the number of traffic.
Thanks
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 11:20 Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello all,
Quick update about the URL shortener: the feature is now live and included in the Query Service! Many thanks again to several developers and volunteers who worked on developing the feature and reporting issues :)
You can now create short URLs for the query (link/chain icon on the left menu of the interface) or directly to the result (once query as run, click on the text "link" on the right side of the screen).
As mentioned by Stas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#URL_shortener_on_Wikidata_Query_Service, please be aware that there is a limitation due to the security rate limit, so if you can't generate a short URL from the Query Service, try again after a few minutes.
The page on Meta to shorten a URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener Documentation & discussions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener Main ticket about the URL shortener: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 Main ticket about the integration into the Query Service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112715
If you find bugs or issues, feel free to add comments or create new tasks on Phabricator.
Cheers, Léa
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 14:14, 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085 or in community discussions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis.
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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener)
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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085
- The user documentation is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener: please help us to translate it in your language!
- See also the technical documentation of the extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener
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! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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