Great news!

I can not find where pre-created links were discussed. But perhaps it is
worth creating 2-character links to Wikipedia sections by languages, and
reserve rest 2-character links for the future.
In this case, all new links for users will be 3 characters and longer.

ср, 3 апр. 2019 г. в 17:08, Léa Lacroix <[email protected]>:

> 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.
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>> > 10963 Berlin
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>> >
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