*(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!
This will be nice. query.wikidata.org needs this in-house URL shortener the most, so we can paste URL short links rather than super long links to Sparql results!
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, 13:14 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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
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
Lovely jubbly. Thanks!
Will buttons to the shortener be deployed to each WMF wiki and query.wikidata.org ?
Deryck
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, 15:18 Amir Sarabadani, ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
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
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Wonderful job! Thanks :)
El jue., 11 abr. 2019 a las 15:56, Deryck Chan (deryckchan@gmail.com) escribió:
Lovely jubbly. Thanks!
Will buttons to the shortener be deployed to each WMF wiki and query.wikidata.org ?
Deryck
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, 15:18 Amir Sarabadani, ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
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
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
For query.wikidata.org there's a ticket you can subscribe to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112715 For others, this will be rolled out gradually to make sure we don't disrupt the infrastructure.
Best
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:56 PM Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
Lovely jubbly. Thanks!
Will buttons to the shortener be deployed to each WMF wiki and query.wikidata.org ?
Deryck
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, 15:18 Amir Sarabadani, ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
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
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org