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It should be possible to blacklist specific domains or regexes locally or globally for all wikis in a wiki farm. Recent forms of harassment I've witnessed consist on outing individuals, their families, or both; by posting URLs to external sites where the harassed user is either depicted, or information about them can be found, etc. Using #spamblacklist is not adviceable in this case because its contents are in a public wiki page for all to read and see. Using #abusefilter will not be satisfactory either, because [at least on Wikimedia] there's no true global abusefilter that applies to all wikis. Moreover while private filters do exist, `abusefilter-view-private` is assigned to all sysops and some other groups not under NDA; making the contents avalaible perhaps to too many people. As such I propose that either a MediaWiki core private special page (which groups should have read/write access to determine later) or the same feature for #spamblacklist to be created where we can blacklist specific "nonpublic" domains that ain't simple spam. Thank you.

It should be possible to blacklist specific domains or regexes locally or globally for all wikis in a wiki farm. Recent forms of harassment I've witnessed consist on outing individuals, their families, or both; by posting URLs to external sites where the harassed user is either depicted, or information about them can be found, etc. Using #spamblacklist is not adviceable in this case because its contents are in a public wiki page for all to read and see. Using #abusefilter will not be satisfactory either, because [at least on Wikimedia] there's no true global abusefilter that applies to all wikis. Moreover while private filters do exist, `abusefilter-view-private` is assigned to all sysops and some other groups not under NDA; making the contents avalaible perhaps to too many people. Now [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSpamRegex | `$wgSpamRegex` ]] will do what it is being requested; but the main disadvantage is that this needs a deployer to add/remove, among others (although we can try to use this as last resort in the most egregious cases for now) via `PrivateSettings.php`. As such I propose that either a MediaWiki core private special page (which groups should have read/write access to determine later) or the same feature for #spamblacklist to be created where we can blacklist specific "nonpublic" domains that ain't simple spam. Thank you.

It should be possible to blacklist specific domains or regexes locally or globally for all wikis in a wiki farm. Recent forms of harassment I've witnessed consist on outing individuals, their families, or both; by posting URLs to external sites where the harassed user is either depicted, or information about them can be found, etc. Using #spamblacklist is not adviceable in this case because its contents are in a public wiki page for all to read and see. Using #abusefilter will not be satisfactory either, because [at least on Wikimedia] there's no true global abusefilter that applies to all wikis. Moreover while private filters do exist, `abusefilter-view-private` is assigned to all sysops and some other groups not under NDA; making the contents avalaible perhaps to too many people. Now [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSpamRegex | `$wgSpamRegex` ]] will do what it is being requested; but the main disadvantage is that this needs a deployer to add/remove, among others (although we can try to use this as last resort in the most egregious cases for now) via `PrivateSettings.php`. As such I propose that either a MediaWiki core private special page (which groups should have read/write access to determine later) or the same feature for #spamblacklist to be created where we can blacklist specific "nonpublic" domains that ain't simple spam. Thank you.