[Bug 33470] Don't allow to create wiki pages with external links

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33470

Kyle Auble <kauble at lavabit.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Kyle Auble <kauble at lavabit.com> 2013-08-04 23:28:35 CDT ---
Sorry to raise this bug from the dead, but I just wanted to nominate the manual
request option for consideration one more time. I discussed the problem briefly
on the mailing list:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2013-August/100681.html.

The new pages they create are trivial. The real problem is the regex filter
gives false positives a lot. We could go through and make the patterns more
precise, but there are always going to be weird cases. For example, I recently
had to redo an edit because "another page" was detected as "her page." Then
there are a few clever spammers that seem to know this so they vandalize our
main pages (which are more likely to have a false positive that prevents
reverting).

Fixing this actually takes a lot of time. Among other things, I'd have to clear
out my browser cache and cookies, log back in to use the updated bad content
list, revert the page, revert the bad content list to its original state, and
only then could I correct the brittle regex. Also, I think a person or bot is
monitoring the site because the one time I made the mistake of temporarily
wiping LocalBadContent to allow a revert, we had a spam edit every couple of
minutes.

Honestly, it makes me a little angry to think that most of our spammers are
probably just poor peasants trying to supplement their income. Don't get me
started on what it says about the modern economy that they're paid to do this
instead of building themselves roads, factories, hospitals.... So yeah, I would
definitely support account requests out of both convenience and principle.

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