After talking with Srikanth for a bit more, I was able to quickly hackup this mediawiki extension[1] that does exactly the same thing tawp.in does now, but in the same domain. So you'll have URLs like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/262. While definitely longer than http://tawp.in/r/262, it can be made much shorter via a simple apache mod_rewrite so http://ta.wikipedia.org/r/262 also works. The advantage of having it as an extension is, ofcourse, that the wikipedia is no longer dependent on code run on a 3rd party server (in this case, tawp.in).
[1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl Feedback welcome :) P.S. My first ever mediawiki extension. I've verified it works, but testing would be welcome too :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l