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Allow preventing Commons images from displaying on Wikipedia home page (etc), to avoid vandalism
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Author: jeh

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We request creation of a magic word that would prevent commons images from being included in a page. The convention at Wikipedia is to make local copies and protect images that appear on high traffic pages. This is necessary to prevent vandalism with NSFW images. However, people often forget. With such a magic word we can have much better protection against such vandalism.

A secondary feature would prevent inclusion of unprotected images.

A third feature would similarly restrict the images in a template that might be widely used.

Perhaps all these can be accomplished simply, I hope. Thank you.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:55 AM
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Thanks for taking the time to report this!

Who is "we"? Which Wikipedia language version is this about? Any link to the on-wiki discussion about this (community consensus)? What are the exact steps to reproduce the current problem? How often does this problem actually appear?

Also, please only file one issue per report. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug for more information. Thanks!

jeh wrote:

We is David Levy and I, two admins who do a lot of work on the home page. (He's much better at images than I am.) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jehochman&oldid=634690317

This enhancement would be a benefit to all Wikipedias, though I am not sure about the magnitude of the problem anywhere except on the English Wikipedia.

If you think further discussion is needed, I can get something started, but it may help if you could suggest the easiest method of implementation, so I could propose it.

Aklapper triaged this task as Lowest priority.Mar 9 2015, 2:14 PM
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Aklapper renamed this task from Need a method to prevent commons images from displaying on Wikipedia home page (etc) to Allow preventing Commons images from displaying on Wikipedia home page (etc), to avoid vandalism.Dec 9 2017, 7:02 PM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:14 AM