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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