1273047 - Askimet won't let me add resource links, no matter how many times I ham it

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

What did you do?
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1. Went to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/GLSL_Shaders
2. Tried to add further resource links to the bottom of the article:

<ul>
 <li><a href="http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217">Learning WebGL</a> — for general WebGL knowledge</li>
 <li><a href="http://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-shaders-and-glsl.html">WebGL Shaders and GLSL at WebGL Fundamentals</a> — for GLSL specific information</li>
</ul>

What happened?
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It keeps flagging it as spam and refusing to let me make the edit, even when I go in as flag those entries as ham multiple times.

What should have happened?
==========================
It should let me make the edit. Perhaps MDN admins shouldn't have their work checked by askimet?

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Sorry that the Akismet checking is blocking your work. I want staff to hit these blocks, since many users will give up, not file bugs, not try again, etc. This lets us know the limitations a lot more quickly, and improve the feature for everyone.

The issue appears to be the external links, and Akismet is being slow to learn that these are legit links. If you need to force the issue, we can enable training mode for your user long enough to make the edit. Akismet may still mark the edit as spam, but it will publish.

On Wordpress, when a comment is blocked as spam, the comment is saved.  Submitting it as ham also publishes a comment. We'd need to do some work (such as server-side drafts) to do the same, and a wiki edit is more complex than a comment, so even then publishing would not always be possible. It's a lot of work, so needs to be balanced with other priorities.

Comment 2

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

Thanks John. I'll make sure to report such instances with as much detail as I can.

Comment 3

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

Chris, did you sort this out?

Comment 4

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I just tried it again, and it has just let me add the links without trouble.