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
Srikanth,
Good work. I liked this tool as a tester when you sent to me. Apart from the ease of keying in from mobile browsers, this has the advantage of being a short url that'll indicate what the target link is about.
- Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:24 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs
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.in shorturl 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
-- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me
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Wow..this is awesome..Thanks a lot Srikanth..please let me know how it will work for other article articles also.
rgds Subhashish
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@gmail.comwrote:
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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