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 <[email protected]>: > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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