Over at Wikinews, we've just started using a new url shortening service-enwn.net for our twitter feed. You'll need to talk to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:ShakataGaNai if interested.
On 17/07/2009 14:06, Chad wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
