1200659 - Apply utm parameters to HTML in shortlinks

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

Bitly has turned on a flag that will allow parameters on a shortlink to pass directly through to MDN. That means we can store one short link for every article, and then at page render time we can add utm parameters to the link. 

Example:

* if mzl.la/lorem_ipsum is a shortlink to developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array

* then mzl.la/lorem_ipsum?utm_source=hoosteeno.com is a shortlink to developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array?utm_source=hoosteeno.com

So this bug is about adding UTM parameters[0] to the shortlinks we get from the database at page render time.

[0] :groovecoder specifies them here: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/pull/3119/files#r26587464. They are "utm_campaign=share&utm_source=[twitter.com|facebook.com|plus.google.com]&utm_medium=doc_widget"

Comment 1

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

We need these UTM parameters, but we should apply them to long links (ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=875062#c53). This is already built in current versions of the code (https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/blob/master/kuma/wiki/templates/wiki/includes/document_macros.html#L90-L92). Closing this bug.