Purpose of this is to make it easier for users to open the wikipedia, not to link pages to someone else. Imagine you open a browser on some device and need to type
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blah this is annoying and long w.org/en/Blag is shorter and easier to type. I guess it would be best if mobile devices supported url's like w Blah which would redirect you to wikipedia page [[Blah]]. This could be implemented to some browsers by team of mobile devs we have? I guess that systems like android have the browser extendable by plugins. It could be a part of application for android we have On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > I see two different use cases here: one, you have URLs that need to be > short so they can fit in Twitter messages and the like. Here, it > doesn't matter whether the URL is human-readable, as long as it's > short. The other use case is that you want to give people a > human-rememberable URL in speech or on TV or the like, where it can't > be hyperlinked. There it should be short but ideally also > descriptive. > > A single URL scheme won't necessarily work well for all possible use cases. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
