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

[Tris Thomas]

Over at Wikinews, we've just started using a new url shortening 
service-enwn.net for our twitter feed.  You'll need to talk to 
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:ShakataGaNai if interested.

On 17/07/2009 14:06, Chad wrote:
> 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
>
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