On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Andrea Stagi stagi.andrea@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
working on Wikipedia mobile app I realized that urls we want to share are too long sometimes and this is a problem when your maximum number of characters is limited. I think that Wikipedia should provide an own shortner url service, like goo.gl, bit.ly etc.. There's just an unofficial service for English Wikipedia: enwp.org... Petan on IRC proposed something like this:
wm.org/language/Article
for example
wm.org/en/Prague
Ok, wm.org is not free actually, but we can think about something similar... What do you think?
I suggested getting wi.ki a long time ago, but Kiribati charges an exorbitant rate for their domains.
-Chad