Have option for noreferrer on external links.
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	Jan 30 2013, 5:51 PM

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Similar to how $wgNoFollowLinks, $wgNoFollowNsExceptions, and $wgNoFollowDomainException can be used to set rel="nofollow" on certain external links, there should be a complimentary set of config options to set rel="noreferrer".

A discussion is ongoing on enwiki about adding noreferrer to external links for privacy reasons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#noreferrer_for_Wikipedia). This will give them the software option of doing so if they decide.

Patch soon to come.

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Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#noreferrer_for_Wikipedia

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:23 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.

• bzimport set Reference to bz44512.

Parent5446 created this task.Jan 30 2013, 5:51 PM

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/46790

A quick note. I do *not* agree/disagree with the actual usage of this on enwiki (or any other WMF wiki). I just think it'd be a good feature to add if enwiki or somebody decides they want to add blanket noreferrer to their external links, which may be desirable in private wikis.

Superseded by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgReferrerPolicy.

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