People will want to link to permalinks. 8 chars, 64 character set (a-z A-Z 0-9 and 2 others). Unlikely to run out for the foreseeable future.
FT2 On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jiri Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > Since (26*2+10)**5 = 916132832 , five chars should be enough for all > articles for ever. > > If some universal url shortener was created, for example http://wmf.org/ , > then 7 chars (3521614606208) would be enough for all projects. If not, the > 8th char can always be added. > > Jiri > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
