https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42085
--- Comment #1 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-11-13 23:16:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0) > I tried to find an existing bug for this, but surprisingly, I wasn't able to > find one. We need this especially for Notifications/Echo. > What kind of urls does Echo needs shortened? And why? > Currently there is Extension:ShortUrl, but the URLs generated by this aren't > much shorter than the existing URLs. > ShortUrl only shortens regular article paths (e.g. no diff urls or custom actions). However it not being much shorter is not true. It can be as short as you want it to be. The recommended set up is to use url rewriting and configure wgShortUrlTemplate. For example, on test.wikipedia and test2.wikipedia it is installed as /s/<ID>: * http://test.wikipedia.org/s/1f * http://test2.wikipedia.org/s/59 > > The main thing we need is a short domain name. This would most likely have to > be donated or granted to us, as short domain names are not cheap. I'd recommend we use subdomains or paths to make it usable for all wmf projects. e.g. lang.abbrev-site.<short>.org/<id> or abbrev-site.<short>.org/lang/<id> or <short>.org/abbrev-site/lang/<id> something like this: * wp.wi.ki/1f * en.wp.wi.ki/1f * wp.wi.ki/en/1f * wi.ki/wp/en/1f This would be backed by Extension:ShortUrl and rewriting the root path of the short domain. So... ideas for short domains? * w.org (exists, for sale) * w.co (available) * w.ly (exists, unavailable) * wmf.org (exists, unavailable) * wmf.co (exists, for sale) * wmf.ly (available) * wi.ki (exists, for sale?) * w.mf (available) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
