[Mediawiki-l] short URLs for non-latin pages

Mon Apr 24 17:58:50 UTC 2006

Hi all!

I'm seeking a way to get rid of those huge URLs for pages with
non-latin symbols in their titles (in my case it's Russian). I found
an unresolved request #1450 in mediazilla (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450) on this theme, it contains
a comment with quite interesting advice (to use page id for it, like
/index.php?title=-&curid=1367).

Are there any more contemporary solutions to this issue? Ideally I'd
like to have URL for a page in a field separate from Title, perhaps
populated automatically with transliterated name of the page.

Thanks in advance,
Artem.