I can forward that. Technically since I logged work hours to write that and the MW Skinning tutorial I don't own the copyright for them, so I have to get an ok for anything like that. Keep in mind that the premise under which I was allowed to write them under work hours was that putting things out for MediaWiki under the Redwerks name could help draw more big clients like BASESwiki and CCA to us asking for us to design a skin for their wiki.
Btw, for reference the tool is written in Ruby (just Rack, no Rails). Ruby's URL handling libraries were miles better than PHP's. And the net library was better (native https support even). And a few other libraries as well. So I used Ruby rather than php.
For that reason, and of course other probable issues with it, I'd say the toolserver is out. Labs only.
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:05:22 -0800, Mr. Gregory Varnum gregory.varnum@gmail.com wrote:
I think the tool is great!
Would it be possible to house on labs or toolserver? My only hesitation in linking to it is then we're dependent on Redwerks generosity in hosting. I think we should leave due credit to them and such in place.
-Greg aka varnent
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On Feb 25, 2012, at 2:26 PM, "Daniel Friesen" lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:25:32 -0800, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Daniel Friesen wrote:
Balanced? That section lists a single bad example of an /advantage/ for long urls.
Another advantage of long URLs, is for such corner case when the sysop team does not know about URL rewriting and has more important things to do than figuring it out. I have seen such cases in small company.
That's not really even an advantage. That's just not knowing how to configure your own software. The point is moot anyways, because the goal of the Short URL building tool is to make it so that you don't need to know. You just tell it where your wiki is. Tell it what path you want. And it'll guess your server setup, environment, and generate the config you need. You just then setup that config and poof.
-- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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