https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55794
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Bug ID: 55794
Summary: Allow file sources to be exempted from spam blacklist
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Spam Blacklist
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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One of the main purpose of file namespace pages is to allow to store author,
license and source metadata related to files we have. We seem to regularly run
into files that list a URL which is on spam blacklist as their source. If an
image meets our license and scope requirements and blacklisted URL is its
source that URL should stay.
I would like to propose to either exempt file sources, or if not possible file
namespace, from spam blacklist, and possibly keep track of files that were
exempted to allow higher scrutiny. At the moment many files with sources on the
blacklist can no longer be edited. I guess websites were added to the black
list after file upload. I personally run into this issue several times, see
Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#File_can_not_be_edited_due_to_blacklisted_external_site
or
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive_43#Spam_protection_filter_blocking_edits
and there never seem to be a good solution. So far I have seen people deleting
sources, replace some letters in url with Russian characters that look like
English characters to obfuscate links or get creative with <nowiki> or other
tags. All of those "solutions" are confusing to everybody else and there have
to be a better way.
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