+1 for removing the blacklist from the code. 

On Tue Nov 11 2014 at 12:28:05 AM John Erling Blad <jeblad@gmail.com> wrote:
What did I say, etc, etc, etc... It feels good to be right. I was
right. Me. I and myself.
Some stuff always bites you, even if it was quite fun! ;)

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> I was looking through the configuration trying to debug my issues from my
>> last
>> email and noticed the list of blacklisted IDs.  They appear to be numbers
>> with
>> special meaning.  I was curious about two things, why are they blacklisted
>> and
>> what is the meaning of the remaining number?
>>
>> * 1: I imagine that this just refers to #1
>> * 23: Probably refers to the 23 enigma
>> * 42: Life the universe and everything
>> * 1337: leet
>> * 9001: ISO 9001, which deals with quality assurance
>> * 31337: Elite
>
>
> I guess we probably ought to delete those default values. They where added
> for something easter-egg like in the Wikidata project, and might well get in
> the way for third party users. This is also not the list of actual IDs that
> got blacklisted on Wikidata.org, which was a bit more extensive, and for
> instance had Q2013, the year in which Wikidata launched. I submitted a
> removal of these blacklisted IDs from the default config in
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/172504/
>
>> The only number that left me lost was 720101010. I couldn't figure this
>> one out.
>
>
> 720101010 is 1337 for trolololo :)
>
> Cheers
>
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