On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Harald Krichel<harald.kric...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Peter Gervai schrieb: >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstar<vac...@jeb.no> wrote: >> >>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site >>> would be >>> " >>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use >>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" >>> >>> That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some >>> languages the attribution will take more than one message. Ooops... >>> >> >> Tinyurl and like? It's, well, tiny. >> > Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service? > This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the > wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains. > > eg.: > http://wp.cx/3tT5u7Z > redirects to > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=302589573 > > http://wp.cx/c > redirects to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License > > Harald > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >
That's actually not a bad idea :) A dedicated wmf domain for short urls would be amazingly helpful for a lot of things. Just make it so the script only accepts WMF-owned domains and you've got yourself a great tool. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l