Some admin actions mess up pageid (and I did some from time to time), so your idea that a page id identifies a title is buggy.
On 8/4/10, സാദിക്ക് ഖാലിദ് Sadik Khalid <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you think your language need such kind a tool, please help me localize >> the i18n config file at >> http://github.com/mountain/shortify/blob/master/config/i18n.js >> > > URL has Read-Only access > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 08/03/2010 05:59 PM, Mingli Yuan wrote: >> > It uses API call to get pageId by the title, and then convert pageId by >> base >> > 36 to the short url. It is quite simple. >> > To reduce the frequency of API call, a simple cache was used. So far, >> only >> > Chinese and English were supported. >> >> you should consider base32 >> http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html >> >> j >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > സ്നേഹാന്വേഷണങ്ങളോടെ, > സാദിക്ക് ഖാലിദ് > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
