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

[Chad]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Harald
Krichel<harald.krichel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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That's actually not a bad idea :) A dedicated wmf domain for short urls would
be amazingly helpful for a lot of things. Just make it so the script
only accepts
WMF-owned domains and you've got yourself a great tool.

-Chad