Joseph Reagle wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2009, Charles Matthews wrote: > >> [[TinyURL]], I would say. Do we take this into account in any advice >> "how to cite Wikipedia"? >> > > I would not make my references dependent upon a commercial service. (It's > fine for Twitter in the short term, but what happens when they go under and > now all those URLs point to porn?) However, institutions should give thought > to their URI architecture, including stability, terseness, etc. The ACM > provides a relatively short URL for everything it publishes, and there are > other DOI services. > > So any particular reason the WMF couldn't provide its own [[URL shortening]] in-house? How hard is it to do a bares-bones service?
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