Author: thor.malmjursson
Description:
Hi. I'd like to file this, to ask whether it is possible to have the MediaWiki:Titleblacklist made into a special page, accessible to administrators only. The reason for this is that recently at en.wikinews, we have had a user create 20+ accounts, all for vandalism, and as we've successively blocked each one in the Titleblacklist, they've changed the format and started making new ones.
The only possibility is that they are viewing the title blacklist, and seeing what we've blocked, only to figure out a way round the block.
By making the interface a restricted special page, only administrators could view and edit the content, thus rendering users from not being able to see what we've done.
I know we have the abuse filter, but at present, as far as I can tell, nobody on our users actually knows how to configure it to add anything :)
Thanks if you can do this guys.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement