On 24/03/12 00:44, Lars Aronsson wrote: > On 03/24/2012 12:17 AM, Platonides wrote: >> On 23/03/12 22:03, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> base36 shortnames, all lower case, please. >> >> How does it help? >> Would you be able to calculate in your mind >> echo List of episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer | gzip | base64 >> for any title? > > A URL shortener works by assigning and storing a number, counting from 1 > and > up, to each URL on a first come, first serve basis. The number is > written in > base 36 (using 10 digits and 26 Latin lowercase letters), so the URL grows > like log-36 of the number of stored URLs. The 40th URL might be wi.ki/14 > (since 1 * 36 + 4 = 40). By using base36, the first million URLs can be > represented by strings of 4 characters, rather than 6 digit decimal > numbers. > The result is a shorter URL, not a human computable, intuitive transform of > the original URL.
Yes, but you need to know in advance that [[Donut]] is at short.org/aGcK I'm not sure at this point which is what we're trying to solve. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
