Thanks for your enthusiastic feedback! James: none of them is supported so far. This could evolve in the future, it will be the choice of WMF's Core Platform Team, who will maintain the feature.
Andrew: for the integration in the QS, no defined date so far, but some tickets to follow if you want to learn more: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219968 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112715 :) On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 15:56, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lea, > > This is great! I'm so pleased to see it's finally coming out. > > Is there a time frame for it coming to query, or just "when it's ready"? > (I have no idea if this last step is a big one or a small one...) > > Andrew. > > > > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 13:16, Léa Lacroix <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > (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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- 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.
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