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. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
