Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Thanks much Yuvi. Great work. Looking forward for more hacks. I would post about this in Wikitech list and ask for suggestions / using the extension across Indic / non latin wikimedia projects. Probably we can rename as TidyURL since its not really short and short is not we care about,tidy is impor

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Short Update. As requested by Srikanth, I've implemented the user configurable "URL Prefix" so any domain with proper forwarding can be used. I've also added a link by default to Toolbox. Will add base64 encoding soon. The Extension is live at http://wiki.busroutes.in. Example 'short' url is http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Great work. Congratulations. When will this be extended to Devanagari? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 1 April 2011 11:04, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Happy to see the work on URL shortener. Congratulations for everyone > involved. As domain names can be used in Indian languages, I actually would > li

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Happy to see the work on URL shortener. Congratulations for everyone involved. As domain names can be used in Indian languages, I actually would like to see the email clients and printing modules from browser improve so that they print the domain name in the native language rather than use English

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

> > So you'll have URLs like > http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/262. While definitely > longer than http://tawp.in/r/262, it can be made much shorter via a > simple apache mod_rewrite so http://ta.wikipedia.org/r/262 also works. > Way to go ! Thanks and congrats Yuvi. Ravi _

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:14, Yuvi Panda wrote: > After talking with Srikanth for a bit more, I was able to quickly > hackup this mediawiki extension[1] that does exactly the same thing > tawp.in does now, but in the same domain. So you'll have URLs like > http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Sho

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

After talking with Srikanth for a bit more, I was able to quickly hackup this mediawiki extension[1] that does exactly the same thing tawp.in does now, but in the same domain. So you'll have URLs like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/262. While definitely longer than http://tawp.in/r/2

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Hi Shiju, In fact redirect pages are very much required for each wiki article. We > never know what all keywords people will use to search for wiki articles. > All the possible keywords should be made redirects. > In fact if you are not creating the redirect page *India* for the article > இந்தியா

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Happy to note that more communities started thinking about this issue. I remember raising this issue way back in 2009 or early 2010. But there were not much takers then. > Happy to announce that Short URLs are now available in every page of Tamil > Wikipedia. > Need to do some UI testing. For e

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Hi Srikanth, Well done on the URL shortening work. Wikimedia should take this and do a centralized shortening service. If each Wikimedia project is going to have different domain names Wikimedia branding value gets diluted. Also, the domain names, service need to be maintained forever and can't b

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Hi Santhosh, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I know it doesnt help people identify the text. This was chosen for people to conveniently share on twitter. As Subhashish pointed out, people are anyway using bit.ly etc and we are getting into an era where people click URLs based on the comment preceeding

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 22:42, jayanta nath wrote: > Great work! How do we add same feature in other Indic wikipedia like > Bengali/Odia ? > To host it yourself like tawp.in follow the steps 1. Get a domain name. 2. Install node.js[1] and shortify[2] in your server. 3. Do minor changes in redi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Hi, URL shortners will not improve the search hits. The above solution allows one to share the non latin wiki url using English alphabets and Arabic numerals. Personally I would prefer a URL I can remember and it should help me to identify to where it is pointing without clicking on it. http://ml.w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Great initiative, really appreciable effort, even we would love to include the same in Odia Wiki. And everytime I need to post anything on Twitter I used to take the help of *bit.ly, *That would be solved now. *ସୁଭପା**SubhashishPanigrahi* * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ *___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

If you add the following line on your vector.js (User:/vecotr.js) you can see the short url on top right of every page like http://defn.me/r/ml/1c . I have tested it on Malayalam Wikipedia and it is working fine there. importScript("User:Mountain/shorturl.js"); Please make sure that you have a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Great work! How do we add same feature in other Indic wikipedia like Bengali/Odia ? With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

Hi all, Happy to announce that Short URLs are now available in every page of Tamil Wikipedia. Sharing Indic URLs with unicode characters are never fun since one will get an ugly looking URL like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E