[Wikia-l] Our spam filter is still a nuisance around the forums

Charitwo charitwo at gmail.com
Sat Nov 15 18:48:02 UTC 2008


Hey Robin,

I believe you can setup a MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist to make a local
exception, though it might only be for URLs.

Charitwo

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Robin-P <Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

>  The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is
> probably caused by a link to an external site.
>
> The following text is what triggered our spam filter: forum talk:index
>
> Return to Forum talk:Index Ohio<http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum_talk:Index_Ohio&action=edit&redlink=1>
> .
>
>
>
> Any chance of easing up on that apparently taboo phrase? It makes rational
> discussion of forum structure and new forums impossible. Could a captcha
> option let us through if there's some fundamental problem?
> [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
> 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand
> Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
> http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp <http://wc.rootsweb.com/%7Erobinp>
> And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site
>
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