On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 23:11, Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 March 2012 08:38, Ariel T. Glenn
<ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
..
As one of those non latin script users, it irks
me no end when I see a
url that is opaque to me soley because it's been url-encoded. I would
love a "smarter" url shortener; there's no reason projects with a latin1
script should produce human readable urls while the rest of us get to
guess where links on our projects lead. Even somewhat weird
romanization is better than what we have now.
Ariel
Perhaps this is one of these problems that can't be solved just with
computers.
These can be solved, but may not be out of the box without writing some
extra code / spending some time.
1. Malayalam and Odia are creating titles in latin and redirect them,
display the latin urls using a prettyurl template[1] and each editor takes
the extra bit of time to create these redirects and it works for them!
2. Then there is interwiki based redirection tools like wikishortpy[2]
which are being used by Tamil Wikipedia.
http://tawp.in/e/Tamil redirects
to
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/தமிழ் along with the "micro-blogging use
case" url
http://tawp.in/r/2vd1
3. When there is working code on script conversion of each language into
latin, we can have human identifiable "easy to type" URLs. These will also
be helpful on feature mobiles where one may not have typing solution. It
will happen sooner or later nonetheless.
[1]
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl
[2]
https://github.com/yuvipanda/wikishortipy
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Regards
Srikanth.L