I asked this question on the wrong thread before; will ask it here. My assumption is that this service won’t be usable for wmflabs.org sites because that is not considered a production environment with the protections one associates with production. Is that correct?
Will it work for wikimediafoundation.org? It’s official, but hosted on a third party service, so I am not sure where it falls between “Wikimedia production” and “definitely not production.” > On Apr 3, 2019, at 6:21 AM, Luca Martinelli <[email protected]> wrote: > > YES, THIS IS AWESOME! Thank you guys! <3 > > L. > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
