On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 23:11, Tei <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 March 2012 08:38, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > .. > > 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 > > Perhaps this is one of these problems that can't be solved just with > computers. >
These can be solved, but may not be out of the box without writing some extra code / spending some time. 1. Malayalam and Odia are creating titles in latin and redirect them, display the latin urls using a prettyurl template[1] and each editor takes the extra bit of time to create these redirects and it works for them! 2. Then there is interwiki based redirection tools like wikishortpy[2] which are being used by Tamil Wikipedia. http://tawp.in/e/Tamil redirects to http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/தமிழ் along with the "micro-blogging use case" url http://tawp.in/r/2vd1 3. When there is working code on script conversion of each language into latin, we can have human identifiable "easy to type" URLs. These will also be helpful on feature mobiles where one may not have typing solution. It will happen sooner or later nonetheless. [1] http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Prettyurl [2] https://github.com/yuvipanda/wikishortipy -- Regards Srikanth.L _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
