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Specific blog post not accessible from wikimediafoundation.org, redirects to third-party medium.com
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$ curl -I https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/06/03/we-stand-for-racial-justice/
HTTP/2 302
server: nginx
date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 05:36:07 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
x-safe-redirect-manager: true
x-redirect-by: WordPress
location: https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/we-stand-for-racial-justice-49c31afbabca
x-rq: arn2 103 16 3129
age: 0
x-cache: miss
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000;includeSubdomains;preload

Medium.com is not generally accessible, it has all sorts of restrictions. There's never a good reason to redirect people from a page in the open web into the walled garden. In particular, it breaks feed readers:

Screenshot_20200604_083721.png (495×1 px, 25 KB)

Event Timeline

Aklapper renamed this task from Blog post not accessible from wikimediafoundation.org to Specific blog post not accessible from wikimediafoundation.org, redirects to third-party medium.com.Jun 4 2020, 7:33 AM
Aklapper added a project: Privacy.

Huh, this explains why I couldn't read today's announcement - thanks for filing this.

Medium.com is not generally accessible, it has all sorts of restrictions. There's never a good reason to redirect people from a page in the open web into the walled garden. In particular, it breaks feed readers:

And it forces people to accept a non-Wikimedia privacy policy to read something very Wikimedia related.

Relatedly, the existence of this redirect will force us to decline T222089: Allow URL shortening for wikimediafoundation.org domain given that it's an off-site redirect.

Looks like this has been resolved?

$ curl -I https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/06/03/we-stand-for-racial-justice/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:12:06 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 44109
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: WordPress VIP <https://wpvip.com>
Host-Header: a9130478a60e5f9135f765b23f26593b
Link: <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Link: <https://wp.me/pawWr3-glA>; rel=shortlink
X-rq: sea1 103 16 3129
Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
Age: 37
X-Cache: hit
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000;includeSubdomains;preload
JFishback_WMF claimed this task.

Please feel free to reopen if needed, but seems like this has been fixed.