Lovely jubbly. Thanks! Will buttons to the shortener be deployed to each WMF wiki and query.wikidata.org ?
Deryck On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, 15:18 Amir Sarabadani, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[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 >> <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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > -- > Amir > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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