Yes I know you can do that, and in fact its what I do right now. The problem is that a few extra chars has a lot of impact in Twitter. A betetr approach would be if it was legal to write something like wikipedia.org/en/123456789 (26 chars) compared to en.wikipedia.org/aid/123456789 (30 chars) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=123456789 (44 chars). To get around the problem I use bit.ly for a bot, but its a bit stupid to not handle this in wikipedia itself.
John On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Petr Onderka <[email protected]> wrote: > You can do that, only the URL is slightly longer: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2312711 > > Although I don't understand what would be the benefit of doing that. > > Petr Onderka > [[User:Svick]] > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 14:09, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: >> In some cases it would be better to linke on article ids than their >> names, something like >> http://en.wikipedia.org/aid/123456 >> >> One example is as a link to an article in Wikipedia from tweet posted >> through the Twitter API. >> >> John >> >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2012/2/18 Alex Brollo <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Is there a sound reason to hidden so well the main id of pages? Is there >>>> any drawback to show it anywhere into wikies, and to use it much largely >>>> for links and API calls? >>>> >>>> Deleting and restoring/recreating results in a new id, and pages take >>> their id upon renaming; is the id still useful for linking with these >>> limitations? I just ask it because it is not perfectly clean for me what >>> you mean by that. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Bináris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
