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Theofficial Wikimedia Foundation URL Shortener has been enabled since 11 April 2019, on Meta:Special:UrlShortener.
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLsfor any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper.
The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special pagem:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able to enter any web address from a service hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to copy it and reuse it anywhere.
The format of the URL isw.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and numbers. You can already test this, for example:
In order to assure the security of the links, and to avoid short links pointing to external or dangerous websites, the URL shortener is restricted to services hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes for example: all Wikimedia projects, Meta,mediawiki.org, theWikidata Query Service,Phabricator (full list here).
In order to avoid abuse of the tool, there is a rate limit:
In order to enforce the rate limit described above, the page Special:URLShortener will only be enabled on Meta, and in theWikidata Query Service.
In addition to using short URLs on social media, and on paper, they can be used for Wikidata queries.
TheWikimedia Foundation also maintains shorteners specific to the English Wikipedia aten-wp.org anden-wp.com.[1] URLs on this domain act the same as on the English Wikipedia. For example,https://en-wp.org/wiki/Wikipedia:URLShortener will redirect to this page.