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As a countermeasure to spam, the spam blacklist is used to prevent blacklisted URLs from being added to Wikipedia.
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The
spam blacklist
is a control mechanism that prevents an external link from being added to any page when the URL matches
regex
rules listed at
the local
or
global blacklist
, or belongs to a site listed at
Special:BlockedExternalDomains
. These lists mostly contain
spam sites
, but also include
URL redirection
services (which could otherwise be used to bypass blacklisting),
[1]
some sites which are persistently abused for shock effects, and some sites which have been added after independent consensus.
[2]
Specific links can be allowed by overruling the blacklisted links through addition to
MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
.
The spam blacklist is supported by MediaWiki's
SpamBlacklist
and
AbuseFilter
extensions.
Introduction
MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist is a localized version of
m:Spam blacklist
, a similar blacklist that affects all
Wikimedia Foundation
projects. Additions to the local spam blacklist will only affect the English-language edition of Wikipedia, not other projects. Blacklisting requests may be made at
MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist
. However, blacklisting a URL should be used as a last resort against spammers. You should consider the following before requesting that a URL be blacklisted:
Note that the blacklist only affects live links. Most non-clickable URLs (such as those contained within a
nowiki
tag) are not affected. However, URLs in
edit summaries
are affected.
Requests for listing
Compelling evidence of a problem should be given when requesting a page to be listed (preferably by giving
diffs
).
- Proposed additions
? Use this section to request additions.
- Troubleshooting and problems
? Use this section to report problems with the blacklist.
This is not the section to request links to be removed!
- Discussion
? Use this section for any other discussion involving the blacklist.
Requests for delisting
When requesting that a URL be delisted, you should give compelling evidence as to why it should be delisted. Cases of this could include (but are not limited to) hijacked domains being returned to their rightful owner or a site with content that violates copyrights cleaning up their act.
Relevant links:
See also
References and notes