Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-31 Thread Strainu
I think he means something like youtube has when retrieving the url of a song: http://youtu.be/2cXDgFwE13g vs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g I don't think it would mean big changes in MW, but we would need a catchy domain. Strainu 2012/10/31 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: Everton

Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-31 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi, On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: I think he means something like youtube has when retrieving the url of a song: exactly. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:01 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? Draft

Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-31 Thread Raimond Spekking
Am 31.10.2012 02:48, schrieb Everton Zanella Alvarenga: Hi, wouldn't be nice? Where to propose it? Tom Do you mean the usage of the ShortURL extension on Commons like it is used on same indic language Wikipedias? https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/1iu resolves to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-31 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekk...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean the usage of the ShortURL extension on Commons like it is used on same indic language Wikipedias? https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/1iu YES! :) -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-31 Thread Chris McMahon
I'll also note that ShortURL is also live on test2.wikipedia.org, and that it seems to cause an error on every page for IE7. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekk...@gmail.com wrote: Am 31.10.2012 02:48, schrieb Everton Zanella Alvarenga: Hi, wouldn't be nice?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-30 Thread MZMcBride
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (a.k.a. Tom) wrote: [Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files] wouldn't be nice? Where to propose it? Hi. Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? Draft ideas for new features should be proposed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment.