> I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very > different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even > medium-sized wiki where the average user watches RecentChanges instead of a > watchlist. In a small town, you can leave your doors unlocked and get away > with it because you don't have as much traffic coming through and the > neighbors would notice and care about (for curiosity, if no other reason) > the presence of anyone who seemed out of place. It's the same way on these > small wikis; it's rare than anyone comes along to try to subtly add a spam > link, and when they do, it's noticed. Likewise, if someone starts marking > spammy edits as patrolled, that gets noticed.
That's actually the opposite of what I expect. Small wikis have much less resources to deal with spam, so the per capita spam is significantly larger (imho) > The question of what the default configuration should be, or what > configuration should be used on WMF sites, can be addressed in other bugs > besides this one. It doesn't take much coding to change a default setting > from "true" to "false". For now, I would just like to implement the feature > and make it available for those wikis who want to use it. So, is there > support for putting this in the core as an optional feature, and is there > anyone who will do the code review if I write this? > If there reasonably conceivable exists 3rd party users who want such a feature, I (speaking just for myself) see no problem with having it as an off by default, feature in core. -bawolff _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
