Hi all,
Sharing of URLs of non latin wiki's werent really easy and when copy pasting
we get the unicode numerals in the URL like
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%…
en:User:Mountain had come up with a shortify project[1] and thanks to
Yuvipanda its now live on Tamil Wikipedia. All pages have a link on the
right side of article title.
http://tawp.in/r/262 is the same link and is
being displayed there. The feedback from the community is to have this
hosted by Wikimedia itself as it would be more reliable than individual
running it. So there came the idea of a mediawiki extension and hence
Shorturl extension[2] was born by some really quick work by Yuvipanda.Its
live here[3].(See the toolbox for short URL) While this may be a small
thing, it does help non latin wiki's a lot.Having it in the extension form
is more reliable even though the URL length goes up, but still its
worthy.The URL length can be shortened with mod_rewrite rules on. I would
ideally like this to be used across non latin wikimedia properties as it
helps these projects(like echoed here[4]). Please let me know how to do
this. Bugs on wikimedia bugzilla will do?
Feedback appreciated.
[1]
https://github.com/mountain/shortify
[2]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
[3]
http://wiki.busroutes.in/wiki/Chennai
[4]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-March/002699.html
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-March/002699.html>
Regards
Srikanth.L