Uzume added a comment.
I do not think this is a good idea. This amounts to security through obscurity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133735> and in general is not a good practice. The same data could be found in a number of other ways (e.g., api.php which would be even more useful to a potential vandal bot) and in the end does nothing to actually prevent any vandalism to begin with (just attempts to deter it by obscuring which pages have the most links). Also unconfirmed users (e.g., anonymous IPs) might have valid reasons to what to know which pages are most linked. We already punish such editors enough for the faults of troublemakers. I do not see this as a great way to protect our content from vandalism and it definitely punishes other users. These pages should likely already be well known to administrators that will have added protections to them and obscuring which pages they are adds little. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213300 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Uzume Cc: Uzume, Lydia_Pintscher, Addshore, Aklapper, abian, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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