Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
There is a third use case that people on zhwiki, hiwiki, arwiki and other wikis that don't use latinate characters have: avoiding URI encoding. For example, <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/数学结构>, when it is copy-pasted from Firefox, becomes <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6%E7%BB%93%E6%9E%84>. The same goes for <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/मुखपृष्ठ>, which becomes <http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0>. From what I can see, the micro-blogging use case fits the needs of these users nicely. Mark. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
