On Feb 28, 2015 10:21 PM, "Krinkle" krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think Wikimedia is currently looking at maintaining a url
shortening service.
However, a redirect domain (distinguished by whether or not the target
url can be trivially derived from the request url) seems much more feasible. Especially considering Wikimedia is actually maintaining dozens (if not, hundreds) of those already.
https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/12617ad/modules/mediawik...
https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/12617ad/modules/mediawik...
It'd be a a two-line redirect using RewriteRule.
— Krinkle
Well, extension:ShortUrl is deployed on a couple wikis (but not cs as of yet)
--bawolff