Hey, This is live now, you can use it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
Best On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:14 PM Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de> 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 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085> or in community discussions > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Create_URL_Shortener_extension_for_Wikimedia_wikis>. > > > 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 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>) > > 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085> > - The user documentation is available here > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>: > please help us to translate it in your language! > - See also the technical documentation of the extension > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener> > > 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 > wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Amir
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