On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershberger@wikimedia.org wrote:
Posted this issue at http://hexm.de/8m.
The above link is to :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Does_Wik...
URL shorteners are evil in general, and especially so on archived mailing lists.
* Shortened URLs make it difficult to search for link substrings in the list archives * Users cannot tell the true destination of the link without loading it * To load the link, users are forced to share their IP address with the server that does the URL expansion * A random server for the shortened URLs is not likely to be as reliable as Wikipedia in the long term.
- Carl