Hi all,
Sharing of URLs of non latin wiki's werent really easy and when copy pasting we get the unicode numerals in the URL like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E...
en:User:Mountain had come up with a shortify project[1] and thanks to Yuvipanda its now live on Tamil Wikipedia. All pages have a link on the right side of article title. http://tawp.in/r/262 is the same link and is being displayed there. The feedback from the community is to have this hosted by Wikimedia itself as it would be more reliable than individual running it. So there came the idea of a mediawiki extension and hence Shorturl extension[2] was born by some really quick work by Yuvipanda.Its live here[3].(See the toolbox for short URL) While this may be a small thing, it does help non latin wiki's a lot.Having it in the extension form is more reliable even though the URL length goes up, but still its worthy.The URL length can be shortened with mod_rewrite rules on. I would ideally like this to be used across non latin wikimedia properties as it helps these projects(like echoed here[4]). Please let me know how to do this. Bugs on wikimedia bugzilla will do?
Feedback appreciated.
[1] https://github.com/mountain/shortify [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl [3] http://wiki.busroutes.in/wiki/Chennai [4] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-March/002699.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-March/002699.html Regards Srikanth.L