Nice ideas. For reference, here are the current usage options of enwp.org: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tl-lomas/enwp.org
And here are a few ideas to extend that (in transparent ways): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/137551#137551 Waldir On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Nihiltres <wiki.nihilt...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Please pardon my not quoting earlier emails) > > I think a URL shortener is a great idea if we can make it work right. > We do need, however, to sort out our issues, e.g. the following list: > > *Choice of domain name(s) (or a TLD) > **Acquisition of domain name(s) > **Registration of TLD (if applicable) > **Maintenance and admin. of the above, including costs > **Length of domain name/TLD > *Implementation of URL shortening > **Namespacing for projects/languages > **Whether to encode pagenames/IDs/etc. > **How to encode pagenames/IDs/etc. > > I'm not particularly familiar with the process for TLDs, and I don't > mind the choice of domain much as long as it's short, but I pondered > Wikimedia URL shorteners one day and came up with the following system > for a Wikimedia URL shortening service: > > *The domain wi.ki (at 5 characters, it's among the shortest, and is > very obvious despite the problematic "wiki" vs. "Wikimedia" confusion) > *First, a base 64 encoded ID number for project and language. This has > the advantage of fitting up to 4096 projects before needing three > characters, and would allow some of the most heavily-used wikis to use > only one character for their ID. One potential snag is that we would > want to substitute other characters for "a" and "A" in this area so > that the URL didn't start with http://wi.ki/a/ and confuse us with > Wikia. > *Next, a slash to separate the project number from the page number. > *Next, a base 64 encoded revision ID. By using the revision ID to > determine the target page, we get around the problem of page-moves, > and we could add the option of adding a control character (e.g. +) at > the end to make a permanent link to that particular revision, an > option that many proposals don't allow for. > *An ideal implementation would allow one to prepend a control > character to use a transparent link. > > Thus, we'd have links something like these: > http://wi.ki/0/ZXh8g > http://wi.ki/0/ZXh8g+ > http://wi.ki/0/+Foobar > > In the above examples, the first would go to [[w:en:Foobar]], the > second to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foobar&oldid=425598752 > , and the third again to [[w:en:Foobar]] but in a more transparent > way. "Foobar" might be a bad example, since the title itself is so > short that encoding it doesn't save many characters. > > > Nihiltres > > _______________________________________________ > 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
