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. >> > 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. 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