On 05/09/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/3/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
You and I know that's the road to hell, of course. Meaning well is no excuse. But when dealing with them, it does keep my blood pressure lower to imagine that most of Wikipedia's spammers are like that: clueless but well-intentioned.
Solution: when mediawiki detects that most of a change consists of adding an external link, it reads them the riot act. It takes them to another page confirming that, yes, they really really really think it's in Wikipedia's best interests to be adding this external link. On the whole, we'd be better off just automatically reverting urls submitted by anons.
There's already a captcha when anons try to add a new external link. Presumably some "are you QUITE sure?" text can be added in an appropriate MediaWiki: message.
- d.