My experience is that to create a DOI you need to provide a basic level of metadata for each item rather than simply registering a target URL - I'm not sure how curated this needs to be, and it can probably be autogenerated, but there might be problems scaling it and doing it on demand. There is also a short delay before they become active at the central registry. (I've certainly seen cases where a publisher has issued a DOI then announced it to the world before CrossRef are able to resolve it, and it takes a day or two before the DOI works...)
As a result, I don't think we could generate these on the fly and use a URL-shortener type approach - there might be problems with generating that many of them, and they would not reliably work at the moment they're generated.
Andrew.
On 30 December 2014 at 21:53, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Digital object identifiers are an international standard for document identification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
The WMF could be a DOI registrant, and resolve DOIs in the form 10.NNNN.Qnnnnn for Wikidata items, or, say, 10.NNNN.en:609232908 for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_King_of_Rome&oldid=609232...
Where 's the best on-wiki (Meta?) place to propose this?
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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