* Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:29:33 +0530]: > Hi all, > > Sharing of URLs of non latin wiki's werent really easy and when copy > pasting > we get the unicode numerals in the 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%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE:%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF > > > en:User:Mountain had come up with a shortify project[1] and thanks to > Yuvipanda its now live on Tamil Wikipedia. All pages have a link on the > right side of article title. http://tawp.in/r/262 is the same link and > is > being displayed there. The feedback from the community is to have this > hosted by Wikimedia itself as it would be more reliable than individual > running it. So there came the idea of a mediawiki extension and hence > Shorturl extension[2] was born by some really quick work by > Yuvipanda.Its > live here[3].(See the toolbox for short URL) While this may be a small > thing, it does help non latin wiki's a lot.Having it in the extension > form > is more reliable even though the URL length goes up, but still its > worthy.The URL length can be shortened with mod_rewrite rules on. I > would > ideally like this to be used across non latin wikimedia properties as it > helps these projects(like echoed here[4]). Please let me know how to do > this. Bugs on wikimedia bugzilla will do? > > Feedback appreciated. > I wish the numerous http and mail clients as well as web engines were able to display such links "urldecoded", like Firefox does. I've made such patch for MediaWiki https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25934 However, phpbb didn't decode such links, IE6/7/8 not as well :-( A lots of software and web engines probably has to be updated to recognize the utf-8 URI's. Dmitriy
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