Author: mike.lifeguard+bugs
Description:
Currently the global blacklist at meta is cached (and the cache is invalidated every 10-15 minutes) - this allows spammers to abuse the lag time to continue spamming even after they have been caught in the act. Some method of reducing or eliminating this lag time is needed.
I am unclear why we cannot have a database specifier (currently a URL is specified) for the global blacklist for all WMF wikis, as we host our wikis on the same set of machines. This would allow the cache to be invalidated upon edit just as the local blacklists function; global blacklisting would be as fast as local blacklisting to take effect.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement