Hi Fae, I hadn't factored in the spam filter,<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam_blacklist> that's a separate process that just focusses on sites which we don't want more links to - presumably because people have tried spamlinking them on wikipedia. The edit filter,<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_filter>original… known as the abuse filter is more complex and among other uses doesn't allow certain types of edits.. Both are generally deployed but can be tailored per wiki, I'm assuming that the edit filter is more heavily tuned by language, not least because a rude word in one language will often have innocuous meanings in another. Hence my question here, I am hoping for cross wiki input as this won't just be an EN wiki issue but some others may have very different experiences with them and may even have found a way to measure their effect Hope those links give the info you requested. Regards WSC Message: 2 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:42:22 +0100 From: Fæ &lt;faewik(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Has the underlying level of edits risen or fallen since the Edit Filters came in in 2009? Message-ID: <CAH7nnD0tACeBcE77mBZ1JQqar78= w+SB-SD-z-_GKr_32bws-w(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 28/08/2013, WereSpielChequers &lt;werespielchequers(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: ... Hi WSC, Could you link to where there is a definition of what the edit filters are and what they are supposed to do? I recall having problems including urls like youtube, but I'm not sure if that blacklist is the same thing. If this was something only implemented on the English Wikipedia project, it might be more relevant to raise on wikien-l. Cheers, Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>