Should say this is handy. Good effort.
Typing Indic text on mobile for URL sure is a bit complicated right now for
the normal user. This is useful.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi all,
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].
interwikiredir.appspot.com/or/Chennai will redirect to Chennai article in
Oriya Wikipedia. We have also made this available as part of tawp.inshorturl domain,
hence
tawp.in/en/ArticleNameInEnglish 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!.
Feedback welcome.
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
[2]
https://gist.github.com/1140266
[3]
interwikiredir.appspot.com
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