On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]>
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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