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?
Charles