Στις 26-03-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:39 -0400, ο/η Mark A. Hershberger έγραψε: > 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. >
As one of those non latin script users, it irks me no end when I see a url that is opaque to me soley because it's been url-encoded. I would love a "smarter" url shortener; there's no reason projects with a latin1 script should produce human readable urls while the rest of us get to guess where links on our projects lead. Even somewhat weird romanization is better than what we have now. Ariel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
