According to MediaWiki principles, it would be ideal if the list of rejected links were hosted on a wiki page, e.g. in the Project namespace of the target wiki or on Meta-Wiki. It can also be in JSON format. This assuming that it's not easier for you to handle a database with any manual updates or change tracking, of course.

Example of what I mean: https://github.com/nemobis/oabot/commit/3ef15e9919e95f1b0a51d48125b47880d1355a73

+1.
Just in case useful, here's an example: [[Camillo Golgi]] gave me

Add link: https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/62299/1/accesoRestringido.pdf

which just says

The full text of this item is not available because it has not been provided by its author yet; because there are copyright restrictions; or because a digital version does not exist

@Nemo_bis thanks! Yeah I get the idea, but there is quite a lot of work from such a prototype to something solid (like, in this state we would query the enwiki page every time we get a candidate edit)… Also, I think the simplest would be to store candidate edits in SQL directly so that we could filter them out easily when we add a new link to the blacklist.

@Quiddity : the fact that some links are bad is not a bug in itself: if every link was good, we would not ask people to review them in the first place, we would just add them all with a bot… human judgment is required and that's the point of this tool!

I would also suggest adding the possibility of having a field or a drop-down menu with the motivation for rejection, I think it would be useful to know.
Some reasons that I could think of:

• broken link;
• the link is pointing to a closed article or a paywall;
• the link is pointing to a non-copyright-compliant source;
• the addressed resource is different from the citation;

This bug is the focus of an OpenCon2017 doathon hackday project Monday November 13th (today)! People are coordinating (or landing for info) on this page: https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/46

@Pintoch If you are around today there might be some helpers who could use tips.

@Pintoch I'm getting no response from multiple computers when I click the "start editing" button. Server down? Code breakage?

@Pintoch I'm getting no response from multiple computers when I click the "start editing" button. Server down? Code breakage?

Yep, the issue was introduced when I deployed the new project structure - it's fixed now, I think.