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? > > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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