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Il giorno mer 3 apr 2019 alle ore 14:14 Léa Lacroix <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > (apologies for crost-posting - feel free to share this announcement in your > communities) > > Hello all, > > Having a service providing short links exclusively for the Wikimedia projects > is a community request that came up regularly on Phabricator or in community > discussions. > > After a common work of developers from the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia > Germany, we are now able to provide such a feature, it will be enabled on > April 11th on Meta. > > What is the URL Shortener doing? > > The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs > for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to > reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks or on wikis. > > The feature can be accessed from Meta wiki on the special page > m:Special:URLShortener (will be enabled on April 11th). On this page, you > will be able to enter any web address from a service hosted by the Wikimedia > Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to copy it and reuse it anywhere. > > The format of the URL is w.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and numbers. > You can already test an example: w.wiki/3 redirects to wikimedia.org. > > What are the limitations and security measures? > > In order to assure the security of the links, and to avoid shortlinks > pointing to external or dangerous websites, the URL shortener is restricted > to services hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes for example: > all Wikimedia projects, Meta, Mediawiki, the Wikidata Query Service, > Phabricator. (see the full list here) > > In order to avoid abuse of the tool, there is a rate limit: logged-in users > can create up to 50 links every 2 minutes, and the IPs are limited to 10 > creations per 2 minutes. > > Where will this feature be available? > > In order to enforce the rate limit described above, the page > Special:URLShortener will only be enabled on Meta. You can of course create > links or redirects to this page from your home wiki. > > The next step we’re working on is to integrate the feature directly in the > interface of the Wikidata Query Service, where bit.ly is currently used to > generate short links for the results of the queries. For now, you will have > to copy and paste the link of your query in the Meta page. > > Documentation and requests > > If you have any question or requests, feel free to leave a comment under this > Phabricator task > The user documentation is available here: please help us to translate it in > your language! > See also the technical documentation of the extension > > Thanks a lot to all the developers and volunteers who helped moving forward > with this feature, and making it available today for everyone in the > Wikimedia projects! > > -- > Léa Lacroix > Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
