collection of ideas for avoiding link spam
unsorted no priority just my current ideas
disable save if http links are added to a page. (may make normal users angry)
This can be done already without any code change - hide pages with http links from crawlers. (that may give spam but no money for that spam)
- whitelisting of allowed http pages, check agains those (may make lots of work, long lists)
- using interwikimap for http (may need an itemrwiki entry fo using http links, can be much work)
- an external link item where the link has to be defined beforehand. Only trusted people can get the right to do that. (extra step, can give lots of items, will likly need a namespace, much additional work for regular users)
- only trusted people are allowed to write http links, same as e.g. textcha disabled group.
only people of a usergroup can edit at all (no anonymous)
This can be done by just using acls without any code change