On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Posted this issue at <http://hexm.de/8m>.
The above link is to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Does_Wikipedia_need_a_.E2.80.9Cshare.E2.80.9D_button.3F URL shorteners are evil in general, and especially so on archived mailing lists. * Shortened URLs make it difficult to search for link substrings in the list archives * Users cannot tell the true destination of the link without loading it * To load the link, users are forced to share their IP address with the server that does the URL expansion * A random server for the shortened URLs is not likely to be as reliable as Wikipedia in the long term. - Carl _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
