Daniel Norton wrote: >On Apr 5, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: >> What is the point of having shorter URLs anyway? > >Here are the related references: > > - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener > - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38863 > - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:ShortUrl/UI
I'm beginning to think expanding ShortUrl-type syntax (i.e., en.wikipedia.org/s/xr32) is a reasonable compromise position here. It keeps Wikimedia (and MediaWiki) out of the TLD insanity while providing shorter URLs to those who want them. But... "en.wikipedia.org" is still somewhat lengthy. I happen to regularly use enwp.org as a shortcut for "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"; when browsing the Internet (not in public writing). And it seems w.org is now redirecting to wordpress.org, sigh. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
