In my opinion
it wold be better if there was a simple way to generate
short urls that also identified Wikipedia as such.
John
There is an extension for this: ShortURL:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
I just tried that out with an external domain on my wiki, and it works very well:
sasm.at/244 (11 characters) will now redirect to
säsongsmat.nu/ssm/Recept:Sl%C3%A5nb%C3%A4rssaft_%C3%A0_la_Gusem%C3%A5la (71 characters)
If someone wants to use it the same way, I wrote a short tutorial here:
http://blog.xn--ssongsmat-v2a.nu/2012/02/20/creating-a-url-shortener-with-m…
Leo Wallentin