https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18683
Summary: Remove Uncyclopedia from interwiki list
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_filter/Requ
ested#Uncy_warning
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Normal
Component: Interwiki links
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
The English Wikipedia has a problem with inappropriate Uncyclopedia links being
inserted into articles. This is particularly a problem when they are inserted
as interwiki links, because this makes them hard to track down (we have
[[Special:Linksearch]] for external links and [[Special:Whatlinkshere]] for
internal links, but no equivalent for interwiki links). People seem intent on
making an abuse filter for this ([[Wikipedia:Abuse filter/Requested#Uncy
warning]], rather than a much simpler solution. In the few cases where
Uncyclopedia needs to be linked to, this can easily be done as an external
link; there is no need for an interwiki prefix.
(Frankly, there are many prefixes that shouldn't exist, and I don't at all
understand the attitude "give it special linking status just because it happens
to be a wiki", but the scope of this bug is limited to this particular one
because it is actively causing problems).
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