Le 26/07/13 18:32, MZMcBride a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52056
> 
> I've proposed uninstalling the UploadBlacklist extension from Wikimedia
> wikis. My reasoning:
> 
> * it's a very small extension whose configured blacklist, as far as I'm
> aware, hasn't been updated in years;
> 
> * the AbuseFilter now supports blocking uploads based on SHA-1 hash;
> 
> * I don't consider the blacklist particularly effective as it's trivial to
> bypass (intentionally or accidentally); and
> 
> * uninstalling the extension will help reduce, ever-so-slightly, some
> technical debt.

Not much to add I guess :-]  Thank you for the clean summary!


-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso


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