[WikiEN-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

[Andrew Gray]

2009/9/6 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Risker<risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Amazing how few people realise that we're also perfectly capable of
>> blacklisting their websites, and will do so without hesitation should a
>> spambot show up.  Heck, we give people a hard time for putting in half a
>> dozen of the same links.
>
> Just to hijack the thread...Once a site is blacklisted, is there any
> way to link to it? I had the situation recently that I wanted to
> reference a site (squidoo.com from memory) but it was blacklisted.

There's a local whitelist which overrides the blacklist, for use in
specific cases -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist

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- Andrew Gray
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