2011/4/12 Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com:
Looks good, although I'm not sure what the advantage in this case is over using a page id. Both have the same disadvantage:
- They are binding to a pageid instead of a pagename.
Actually just recently i thought of a different idea. It looks like the Interlanguage extension is finally in the beginning of its way to being rolled out (see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/15607 ). Maybe this extension can be modified so that typing something like http://mul.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama:ar will redirect to http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%.... It wont make the name very short, but it will certainly be better than http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%... for sending by email or instant messaging.
The advantage is that it will work for any language. The interlanguage wiki may have the names limited only to characters which don't have to undergo URL-encoding; this doesn't necessarily mean "English".
("mul" is the ISO 639 code for "multiple languages". There was no decision to give the future Interlanguage wiki this name; i just made it up. The domain can have any other name.)
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