Unless you are modifying the blacklisted URL you should be able to edit around it.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. < [email protected]> wrote: > Over the years while editing on Commons, I run several times into lock > down pages that can't be edited. The issue is that after the page was > created the website listed as the image source was added to the list of > blocked sites by the spam filter as blacklisted external site. As a > result unless someone delete valid source the image cannot be > categorized or altered in any way. See for example > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masopust_dr%C5%BE%C3%ADme_14.jpg > . > > There were several discussions about it on Commons and I filed a bug > report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55794 . But still > the common practice is to somehow disable the link like in > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AMasopust_dr%C5%BE > %C3%ADme_07.jpg&diff=107220155&oldid=102671143 > > Is there a better way to deal with such files? > > > > Jarek T. > > (user:jarekt <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jarekt> ) > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
