[WikiEN-l] SEO

[David Gerard]

On 05/09/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/3/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:

> > You and I know that's the road to hell, of course. Meaning well is no
> > excuse. But when dealing with them, it does keep my blood pressure lower
> > to imagine that most of Wikipedia's spammers are like that: clueless but
> > well-intentioned.

> Solution: when mediawiki detects that most of a change consists of
> adding an external link, it reads them the riot act. It takes them to
> another page confirming that, yes, they really really really think
> it's in Wikipedia's best interests to be adding this external link.
> On the whole, we'd be better off just automatically reverting urls
> submitted by anons.


There's already a captcha when anons try to add a new external link.
Presumably some "are you QUITE sure?" text can be added in an
appropriate MediaWiki: message.


- d.