Daniel Norton wrote:
On Apr 5, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
What is the point of having shorter URLs anyway?
Here are the related references:
I'm beginning to think expanding ShortUrl-type syntax (i.e., en.wikipedia.org/s/xr32) is a reasonable compromise position here. It keeps Wikimedia (and MediaWiki) out of the TLD insanity while providing shorter URLs to those who want them.
But... "en.wikipedia.org" is still somewhat lengthy. I happen to regularly use enwp.org as a shortcut for "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" when browsing the Internet (not in public writing). And it seems w.org is now redirecting to wordpress.org, sigh.
MZMcBride