On 10/7/07, jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
Someone has inserted a statement into the current dumps (20070908) which
causes the following message to appear on all login screens which imports
...
My mirrors are not proxy or phishsing sites, and
it's inappropriate to
place this type of content into the dumps for innocent parties who may be
using the dumps simply to mirror or promote wikipedia in good faith.
I do not know whose idea this was, but its a terrible one. I will be
removing thesde entries from my local dump. Were it just an informational
message without referencing the site name, that's not as problematic, but
this template is designed to place this content by dynamically generating
the site name in the message. It is therefore cachable by search engines
and improperly labels mirror sites as "phishing" sites.
I agree. It's a terrible idea: The message is created via the
template system, and not via javascript. This means that in cases
where someone has setup a reverse proxy to 'live load' the site people
will not get the message, but in cases where people have properly
loaded the dumps they will.
People loading the dumps are not a real phishing risk at least for
enwp, since loading a dump is a ton of work. Setting up a proxy isn't.
Then again, there are all sorts of stupid wikipediaisms in the dumps
that are going to break things for people importing them. These
dependencies are often introduced by users without consideration of
the implications... it's nearly impossible for us to stop it so the
burden must remain with anyone using the dumps to fix the issues.