I think he means something like youtube has when retrieving the url of a song:
http://youtu.be/2cXDgFwE13g vs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g
I don't think it would mean big changes in MW, but we would need a catchy domain.
Strainu
2012/10/31 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (a.k.a. Tom) wrote:
[Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files]
wouldn't be nice? Where to propose it?
Hi.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
Draft ideas for new features should be proposed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment.
MZMcBride
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