Wonderful job! Thanks :)

El jue., 11 abr. 2019 a las 15:56, Deryck Chan (<deryckc...@gmail.com>)
escribió:

> 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, <ladsgr...@gmail.com> 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 <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
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Amir
>>
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