On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Andrea Stagi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> working on Wikipedia mobile app I realized that urls we want to share
> are too long sometimes and this is a problem when your maximum number
> of characters is limited. I think that Wikipedia should provide an own
> shortner url service, like goo.gl, bit.ly etc.. There's just an
> unofficial service for English Wikipedia: enwp.org... Petan on IRC
> proposed something like this:
>
>    wm.org/language/Article
>
> for example
>
>    wm.org/en/Prague
>
> Ok, wm.org is not free actually, but we can think about something
> similar... What do you think?
>

I suggested getting wi.ki a long time ago, but Kiribati charges
an exorbitant rate for their domains.

-Chad

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