https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40267
--- Comment #6 from [email protected] 2012-09-20 20:56:33 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > I am not sure externallinks is designed for this purpose. It tries to > canonicalize links to make blacklist matching better. > > weblinkchecker.py from the pywikipediabot package > (http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/weblinkchecker.py?revision=10457&view=markup#l777) > fetches article contents and check URLs from the page, applying some > heuristics. That's totally outdated. It is meant to fetch it from API/database, where the problem reappears. Isn't blacklist matching only needed in the stage of editing? Can't we compare it then and take the correct url to the database? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
