[Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

[Harald Krichel]

Peter Gervai schrieb:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstar<vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:
>   
>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site
>> would be
>> "
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
>>
>> That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some
>> languages the attribution will take more than one message. Ooops...
>>     
>
> Tinyurl and like? It's, well, tiny.
>   
Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service?
This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the
wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains.

eg.:
http://wp.cx/3tT5u7Z 
redirects to
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=302589573

http://wp.cx/c
redirects to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License

Harald

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