From a technical standpoint: I agree with Brion. There are a whole host

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13706 Perhaps a community discussion is necessary on the matter, I hereby initiate it. When a person tries to edit a page that contains a URL matching the spam autoblocker regex, the user is prohibited from making the edit until the spam link is removed. The spam autoblocker was intended to prevent the addition of new spam. In a scenario where a spambot adds spam links to wikipedia, then later the spam url is added to the spam blacklist, then a user tries to edit a page that already contains spam added before the spam url is added to the spam blacklist. For a human this isn't much of a deal to deal with, it is however a different story when it comes to bots. Consider you are operating a bot that makes non-controversial routine maintenance edits on a regular basis. The spam autoblocker would prevent such edits. If your bot's task is dealing with images renamed/deleted on commons or if your bots task is dealing with interwiki links this is particularly problematic. Interwiki bots, commons delinking bots often edit hundereds of pages a day on hundereds of wikis. Thats a lot of logs. So the suggestion that I should spend perhaps hours per day reading log files for spam on pages on languages I cannot even understand (or necesarily read the ?'s and %'s) is quite unreasonable. This is a task better dealt with by the locals (humans) of the wiki community rather than bots preforming mindless, routine and non-controversial tasks. There is also the matter of legitimate reason to include spam on pages such as archived discussion on a spam bot attack where example URLs are used before these make their way to the spam autoblocker. - White Cat _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

I beg your pardon? Forum shopping on foundation-l? Seems self contradictory... On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

On 4/28/08, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote: It would be nice if flagged bots were exempt from the spamfilter. Spam URLs and protected pages are the situations that my bots can't handle -- for everything else, the bot can either wait or try again.

A suggestion was that to make the spam autoblocker only black the edit if a new spam link is being introduced and spam already on the pages do not get affected. This comes at the expense of performance though.

Where am I supposed to propose it? Bugzilla is obviously the wrong address.