https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42085
--- Comment #11 from Andre Klapper <[email protected]> 2012-11-14 00:39:36 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > You seem to assume that people have an easier time remembering bit.ly/fdjs3423 > than en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo. As we don't talk about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo here we run in circles. Again, see comment 3 for an example, that long donation URLs are needed, and that linking to the generic landing page isn't appropriate. > The primary cost is in the introduction of a middle-man dependency "Cost" is unclear to me, if WMF controls the service. > In instances where there's no benefit to using a shortened URL > arbitrary character limitations), the cost easily outweighs any > benefit of using a shortened URL. I fail to understand the "cost". People are still free to use the long URLs in blog posts. -- 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
