We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I think a schema like http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/<article_title> or http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/?oldid=<oldid> would be cleanest. For enwiki it would be http://wm.org/enwiki/Foo; the worst-case scenario is AFAIK http://wm.org/mediawikiwiki/Foo; still only 28 characters plus the title. Use one of the qqx reserved codes for stuff like copyright, and you have a complete service.
--HM
"Chad" innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote in message news:5924f50a0907170633ofbf108al8b2486ae889cc00f@mail.gmail.com...
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Grayandrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/7/17 Harald Krichel harald.krichel@googlemail.com:
Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service? This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains.
eg.: http://wp.cx/3tT5u7Z redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=302589573
I discovered yesterday that:
enwp.org/Article
redirects to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article
Sadly, it doesn't work with revision IDs, but it's a start!
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- Andrew Gray
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Yes it does, enwp.org/?oldid=60372135 should redirect you to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=60372135 which is a 2006 revision of [[Old-Timers' Day]] (thanks Special:Random).
-Chad
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