On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@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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