2010/8/3 Mingli Yuan <mingli.y...@gmail.com>:
> It uses API call to get pageId by the title, and then convert pageId by base
> 36 to the short url. It is quite simple.
> To reduce the frequency of API call, a simple cache was used.  So far, only
> Chinese and English were supported.
>
Why would you reduce the page ID in length with base 36? They're,
what, 10 digits?

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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