https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35404
James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |jforres...@wikimedia.org
Resolution|--- |WONTFIX
--- Comment #2 from James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> ---
This is a WONTFIX on two counts:
1. SpamBlacklist (which is a horrible hack) is for blocking external links. "[[
http://foo.com/]]"; isn't an external link, even if it contains some text that
looks like one to a human, so doesn't get caught by it. A better way in general
of dealing with spammy links is a global AbuseFilter, as that isn't focussed
just on one . To use it in a filter directly, the code is written, and will be
enabled soon; to have a proper spam-fighting capability in AbuseFilter is a
route we haven't yet explored, but seems more sensible than fixing archaïc
code. I've created a bug for that as bug 45747.
2. We're trying really, /really/ hard not to add more hacks onto the PHP parser
at this point, as we're looking forwards to the point when Parsoid replaces it;
as it is, the workload to create "bug-for-bug comptability" with the PHP parser
is extreme, and changes to how it works is something to avoid. Additionally,
changes to corpus interpretation that may be unexpected are generally not great
- it's astonishing how many times our users delibaretly use the edge-cases of
'unexpected' behaviours to do something odd but intentional.
Sorry!
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