On 12 November 2013 18:29, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm opposed to this change. A site administrator with a big enough
> community to address spammy links, and wants to enable this feature, is
> likely savvy enough to change the preference from true to false.
> I think setting this to false by default is going to encourage spam bot
> authors to target MediaWiki specifically, more than they currently do.


Concur. If someone wants to switch this on, they can. But leaving the
default to on? Spammer magnet.


- d.

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