Any time I find an url shorter I add it to global blacklist, same do other
stewards/meta admins. That's because url shorters are the most common way
to circumvent blacklisting.
Vito
2016-06-01 10:33 GMT+02:00 Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi!
This is a major problem as it prevents concise
URLs for gigantic queries
from being linked from other Wikimedia wikis. Has anyone thought of this
issue (Stas, Jonas?), in particular: should we ask Meta to remove the
domain from the blacklist or potentially consider another URL shortening
solution?
Yes, we thought of it (T112715) but since Wikimedia's own URL shortener
(T108557) is not up yet, we have to use what is there.
got it
If you have an idea of a shortener more suitable
than
tinyurl.com, we
could replace/add
it. So far we didn't find a better alternative.
I don't, it probably depends on what shorteners are most used for spam
purposes across Wikimedia projects. Maybe someone familiar with URL
blacklisting from major wikis can comment?
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
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