[Wikimediaindia-l] Interwiki Redirection based Sane URLs

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

Should say this is handy. Good effort.

Typing Indic text on mobile for URL sure is a bit complicated right now for
the normal user. This is useful.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A few days back, there was discussion around ShortUrl[1]. I have made
> another small tool(code[2]) which takes English Wiki article name and
> redirects to the language Wikipedia. The redirection app is live[3].
>
> interwikiredir.appspot.com/or/Chennai will redirect to Chennai article in
> Oriya Wikipedia. We have also made this available as part of tawp.inshorturl domain, hence
> tawp.in/en/ArticleNameInEnglish will redirect to corresponding interwiki
> article in Tamil. Building this into a mediawiki extension might be useful
> since not all mobiles may support Indic input schemes and first step to read
> an article is to type the URL!.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl
> [2] https://gist.github.com/1140266
> [3] interwikiredir.appspot.com
>


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