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Brion Vibber wrote:
Jeff Raymond wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Indefinite. I'd prefer to see actual improvements (whitelisting, fading, flagging and approval system, etc) rather than just turn it off one day, though.
Why aren't we treating nofollow like the spam blacklist?
To be useful it needs to function on a whitelist approach, and the
Oh, and also the current spam blacklist system is dreadful. It's hard to maintain, very fragile (easily breaks due to not-quite-right regular expressions) and tends to combine "really obvious spam that no one wants" with "annoying stuff that we're tired of seeing on Wikipedia", making sharing of the blacklist with other wikis difficult.
Volunteers for reworking the blacklisting system are also welcome over in the tech channels. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)