Closed georgebarnick closed 8 years ago
MtMNC
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10 years ago This could be very useful. It would probably best be done outside of an actual page though, because then if a younger user knew the page name or saw it in the Recent Changes they could easily find all the blacklisted words (which I imagine would mostly be curses).
Drewlzoo
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10 years ago MtMNC does have a good point. I've always wished we could configure the word filter through the back end at Wikia. Howevever, since different wikis have different lists of blocked words, I don't know how realistic that is. Maybe we could have a back-end list of globally blocked words, and then just implement this idea for blocked words specific to a wiki?
georgebarnick
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10 years ago Having bad words in a page isn't much of a concern in my opinion, and I really don't like the idea of having it back end (because then it's harder for most wiki administrators to change). It's not uncommon for word filters to be on wiki pages. For example, Huggle config is on a wiki page but contains what would normally be considered profane language. I can't imagine many kids would end up seeing the single page with profanity of all the thousands of pages on the wikis, especially since it wouldn't be in the mainspace or any other frequently visited namespace. It shouldn't be an issue with them seeing it in the recent changes since I'm sure it wouldn't need to be updated often...
Drewlzoo
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10 years ago Thinking about it again, I have to agree. It'd be just as easy to Google "swear words", as it would be to read those pages. As long as there's some type of waring that the page contains profanity, I don't mind. On Apr 3, 2014 5:20 PM, "George Barnick" notifications@github.com wrote:
Having bad words in a page isn't much of a concern in my opinion, and I really don't like the idea of having it back end (because then it's harder for most wiki administrators to change). It's not uncommon for word filters to be on wiki pages. For example, Huggle confighttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Configis on a wiki page but contains what would normally be considered profane language. I can't imagine many kids would end up seeing the single page with profanity of all the thousands of pages on the wikis, especially since it wouldn't be in the mainspace or any other frequently visited namespace. It shouldn't be an issue with them seeing it in the recent changes since I'm sure it wouldn't need to be updated often...
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MtMNC
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10 years ago You both make very good points; you're right, a wiki page probably is the best option. I know it's not an immediate concern, but if this is implemented as a wiki page it would nonetheless be good to make sure any edits are marked as bots, just as a precaution. Or maybe that's just overkill. :P
adamrobcarter
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10 years ago What do you propose would be logged?
georgebarnick
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10 years ago @UltrasonicNXT: Probably the what was actually said. That way if a chat moderator needed, they'd be able to see what the user said in the event it needed a chat ban or something.
georgebarnick
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10 years ago Changed milestone to Q3 2014 as this is a low priority enhancement.
neoncitylights
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8 years ago
It'd be useful for a list-like page like MediaWiki:Smileys were made that could list filtered/censored words such as swears or other inappropriate remarks.
Such messages to be included in this feature could be:
chat-filter- bulleted list of words to filter out in chatchat-filter-image- image (like an emote) or text (like "####" censored text) to display instead of the filtered word