On 25.11.2012, 22:22 Platonides wrote:
+1 I think MediaWiki should keep this simple feature, without having to write abuse filters or needing to install specific extensions.
+1 to me too. Infinite modularity is bad, and the feature is pretty simple, probably less than 1 kilobyte of code without comments.
Is it possible to write AbuseFilter so that it is able to make use of both bad and good lists stored within the MW namespace? I especially like that if we are able to utilise that in the global space. We have had global vandals come along and start spamming or vandalising by the addition of an image, or a singular image with coding. To be able to slow down that process with a global filter, would be excellent.
AbuseFilter is completely unrelated to this: AF blocks _edits_ while bad images list blocks _content_.
We could easily use a global bad image list right now. The discussions on meta of "OMG you are censoring usage of this image in all the wikis" could be endless, though. But if people fighting crosswiki vandalism really want it, I'm for it.
Local whitelisting does wonders:) Basically, same thing we have with SpamBlackist: I don't think anyone seriously complains is a site gets blacklisted these days.