On 02/19/2012 01:10 AM, John Erling Blad wrote: > Some of the urls to Wikipedia will fail when converted by the > mechanism in Twitter, so you either must use the ugly url in the tweet > or use a short url. Because you usually want to control the overall > length you must convert it to a short url before you know how long it > will be. > > In my opinion it wold be better if there was a simple way to generate > short urls that also identified Wikipedia as such. > > John
There is an extension for this: ShortURL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl It's being reviewed and prepared for deployment on Wikimedia wikis: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
