On 12 November 2013 18:29, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm opposed to this change. A site administrator with a big enough community to address spammy links, and wants to enable this feature, is likely savvy enough to change the preference from true to false. I think setting this to false by default is going to encourage spam bot authors to target MediaWiki specifically, more than they currently do.
Concur. If someone wants to switch this on, they can. But leaving the default to on? Spammer magnet.
- d.