1440426 - Shortened links keep triggering spam filter

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, enhancement)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Trying to create a wiki version of the Channel meeting page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-02-22&action=submit:

     The text you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter.

This is probably caused by a link to a blacklisted external site.

    The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/3eyo4f
    The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/XWBWwx
    The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/TKVct1
    The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/mMu7yc

We routinely use bitly and other link shorteners since we post some really long links on that page.

Looks as if this has happened in the past as well: Bug 1047606

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

mhoye is this something you can help with?

Comment 2

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Should be, lemme talk to our peoples.

Comment 3

[Spike, UTC+1, spike on Matrix]

(In reply to Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me] from comment #0)
> Trying to create a wiki version of the Channel meeting page:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-02-
> 22&action=submit:
> 
>      The text you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter.
> 
> This is probably caused by a link to a blacklisted external site.
> 
>     The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/3eyo4f
>     The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/XWBWwx
>     The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/TKVct1
>     The following text is what triggered our spam filter: goo.gl/mMu7yc
> 
> We routinely use bitly and other link shorteners since we post some really
> long links on that page.
> 
> Looks as if this has happened in the past as well: Bug 1047606

Hello Marcia,

It is doable to 'whitelist' URLs on our wiki but I would be very reticent to globaly do this for any/all link shorteners. And it seems to be the 'goo.gl' in your examples above as the third one is a link to a BMO bug and BMO is already in our whitelist.

Is it a real issue for you to use the full long link?

Spike

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

The Softvision team are the ones posting those links, which go to TestRail (test results) and I guess Bugzilla and BMO queries. Previously these links have appeared with no issues. I will instruct them to use full links in the future - we can close this bug out.