On 02/19/2012 01:10 AM, John Erling Blad wrote:
Some of the urls to Wikipedia will fail when converted by the mechanism in Twitter, so you either must use the ugly url in the tweet or use a short url. Because you usually want to control the overall length you must convert it to a short url before you know how long it will be.
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
It's being reviewed and prepared for deployment on Wikimedia wikis:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue