[Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices andsystems

[Happy-melon]

We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should 
really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. 
http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I 
think a schema like http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/<article_title> or 
http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/?oldid=<oldid> would be cleanest.  For enwiki it 
would be http://wm.org/enwiki/Foo; the worst-case scenario is AFAIK 
http://wm.org/mediawikiwiki/Foo; still only 28 characters plus the title. 
Use one of the qqx reserved codes for stuff like copyright, and you have a 
complete service.

--HM

"Chad" <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote in 
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> 
> wrote:
>> 2009/7/17 Harald Krichel <harald.krichel at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> I discovered yesterday that:
>>
>> enwp.org/Article
>>
>> redirects to
>>
>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article
>>
>> Sadly, it doesn't work with revision IDs, but it's a start!
>>
>> --
>> - Andrew Gray
>>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>>
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> Yes it does, enwp.org/?oldid=60372135 should redirect you to
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=60372135 which is a 2006 revision
> of [[Old-Timers' Day]] (thanks Special:Random).
>
> -Chad
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