Thank you, I think that it is vandalism of victor Charlie (slang in vn war) On 29 Oct 2018 04:53, "David Abián" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm sending this email to request your help with... > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207648 > > We don't want non-confirmed users to see links from semiprotected > Wikipedia articles to their corresponding Wikidata items. This is a > well-known source of vandalism (and bad press) that is seriously > affecting Wikidata and some Wikipedias. > > As Lydia describes on T205783, > > "When contentious topics show up in the news vandalism on the Wikipedia > articles related to it usually shows up pretty quickly. The article then > might be protected for some time in order to prevent more vandalism. A > pattern we are seeing now is that people then move over to Wikidata and > continue their vandalism there. (This might then in turn lead to > vandalism showing up in the article anyway if it uses the data.) This > especially happens when an infobox has "edit on Wikidata" links or > something similar. We need to find a way to make this attack vector less > of a problem." > > We don't want to hide these links from everyone, just from non-confirmed > users. We could write CSS rules for certain user groups, but this can > bring undesired side effects like giving all users the possiblity of > hiding arbitrary content (e.g., vandalism) from other users who should > be able to see it. > > We also have `mw.title.protectionLevels["edit"]` in Lua, but this option > is documented as "expensive" and I can't guess what its impact could be > if applied on a large scale. > > Any action or suggestion on how to achieve this is more than welcome. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > David Abián > > _______________________________________________ > 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
