On Feb 28, 2015 10:21 PM, "Krinkle" <krinklemail(a)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/mediawi…
https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/12617ad/modules/mediawi…
> 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