For many events at Wikimedia NYC, we use a shortcut -- once you're on Wikipedia -- like "WP:Harlem" also known as "Wikipedia:Harlem"
The redirect (before it redirects): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Harlem&redirect=no
Redirects to the Schomburg editathon we held earlier this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Schomburg
I understand why URL shorteners are non ideal. I support that I guess. These Wikipedia shortcuts have been very helpful although they probably don't work across projects. Another reason to avoid Meta #sigh
Best,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle Secretary, Wikimedia NYC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dario Taraborelli, 01/06/2016 10:33:
I don't, it probably depends on what shorteners are most used for spam purposes across Wikimedia projects. Maybe someone familiar with URL blacklisting from major wikis can comment?
Nearly all URL shorteners get blacklisted, eventually.
that makes sense. It sounds like in the short term (and until we have a Wikimedia-operated shortener), using full URLs from WDQS is – alas – the only way to go. One option we haven't mentioned would be for WDQS itself to support URL shortening, I have no idea where that would sit in terms of priorities.
Dario
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