On 19/11/12 10:04, Daniel Friesen wrote:
My favorite right now is "en.wp.w.mf". Unless you want to spend $100,000. ;) In which case we could revive the age old wish of a .wiki tld, grab some short names for wmf wikis, and make .wiki available for registration of all wiki.
I also like the idea of including a subdomain/path besides the short ID like en.wp.??? so that you can actually understand what site you are going to.
There is a tradeoff between providing information and actually managing to shorten the URL.
Providing a traditional URL shortener with traditional features would be useful, at least for some people, and would eliminate the need to use third-party URL shorteners internally, which have a commercial focus and unknown lifetime. If there was no integration with MW required, it would only take a couple of hours to set up.
-- Tim Starling