Hi!
I could have used another one on my own I guess, but the current implementation is much faster and less error prone when dealing with monster sparqling urls...
please find a way to keep it
There are no plans to remove URL shortening. There are plans to switch URL shortener to Wikimedia's own one, which is supposed to be coming up eventually, but before that, we plan to use existing ones. We might change a provider if it turns out there is a better one, but we do not plan to remove the functionality.