I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even medium-sized wiki where the average user watches RecentChanges instead of
a
watchlist. In a small town, you can leave your doors unlocked and get away with it because you don't have as much traffic coming through and the neighbors would notice and care about (for curiosity, if no other reason) the presence of anyone who seemed out of place. It's the same way on these small wikis; it's rare than anyone comes along to try to subtly add a spam link, and when they do, it's noticed. Likewise, if someone starts marking spammy edits as patrolled, that gets noticed.
That's actually the opposite of what I expect. Small wikis have much less resources to deal with spam, so the per capita spam is significantly larger (imho)
The question of what the default configuration should be, or what configuration should be used on WMF sites, can be addressed in other bugs besides this one. It doesn't take much coding to change a default setting from "true" to "false". For now, I would just like to implement the
feature
and make it available for those wikis who want to use it. So, is there support for putting this in the core as an optional feature, and is there anyone who will do the code review if I write this?
If there reasonably conceivable exists 3rd party users who want such a feature, I (speaking just for myself) see no problem with having it as an off by default, feature in core.
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