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
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From: Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
<wikimediaindia-l(a)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
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Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
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