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. 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.
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org