On 12 November 2013 18:29, Chris Steipp <csteipp(a)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.