Last modified: 2011-08-21 20:01:03 UTC
This is basically a request for additional attributes in Extension:TitleBlacklist for Marathi Wikipedia.The extension is already in implementation at Marathi Language Wikipedia . Please do refer [http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80] and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist *Additional attribute/feature request is "attributes which can provide feature that will block roman script letters 'a to z' in both variants small and capital if occurred any where in the title". ** This feature should be definable to local sysops to block titles in given specific name spaces. Which Namespaces you are planning to apply and which namespaces you are planning to exclude :We want to apply this to following name spaces and want to exclude rest of the name spaces (Prefer that this remains definable at local level for sysop) मुख्य (main namespace/article namespace), चर्चा (Talk Namspace), दालन (Portal) , दालन चर्चा (Portal Talk) आणि वर्ग (Category) वर्ग चर्चा (Category Talk) Do you have local consensus :Yes very much , Please refer [http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपीडिया:चावडी/तांत्रिक_प्रश्न#Blocking_of_article_titles_in_roman_script_by_anon_and_new_users] The main purpose to have this feature "Blocking of article titles in roman script by anon and new users" The main reason why do we want this feature is "Since 50% of spam edits on mr wiki (although is unintentional test edits) are coming from new users (non auto-confirmed) and anonymous users. Why through this extension: Extension is already implemented on mr wiki and most of wikis. Extension already gives good amount of freedom and options to local sysops at local level. This improvement will not only benefit to mr-wiki but many non roman alphabate wikis
This can already be done in title blacklist extension without dev intervention. .*[a-zA-Z].* will match any "roman" letters (or at least english one's, I'm not sure what the definition of a "roman" letter is. Blocking super obscure unicode variants of latin letters would probably be difficult.) If you want to limit it to just main namespace, you can do stuff like: [^:]*[a-zA-Z][^:]* Similarly, prefix that with a namespace to block a specific namespace Please re-open this bug if i misunderstood anything.
Greetings and thanks for quick reply. a-zA-Z is enough for our purpose. I will try implementing as per your guidance. Thanks and Regards Mahitgar
