[pmwiki-users] Blocklist2 too strict?

[Crisses]

On Jul 22, 2005, at 10:23 AM, K.A.Bouton wrote:



> How can I make the words blocked less strict
>
> For example - the word convert seems to be blocked because of  
> vertin in the
> sample list?
>
> should it just get words, or strings within words
>
>

It does.  So that word being blocked must be the word "converting" --  
not "convert"

Drug makers have become more sly -- they are creating drug names from  
portions of real words.  I literally grabbed the drug names from a  
rather prolific wiki vandal.  The list I put up is a suggestion/ 
sample, and really needs to be gone over quickly by the admin who  
uses it -- or the admin will need to edit it from time-to-time if too  
much is being blocked.


My suggestion: delete the "block:vertin" line from the blocklist.  I  
doubt it will make a difference unless vertin becomes as popular as  
viagra. ;)

I will probably have to run the blocklist example against an English  
dictionary at some point.  I went through and deleted some by eye  
that were short and obviously going to be problematic -- but some are  
less obvious to the eye.  In the meantime, at least it means I wasn't  
particularly prejudiced towards American/English installations  
(someone with a wiki installation in another language may not care  
about "converting").  Mostly I removed drug names my users may well  
have good reason to mention (prozac, melatonin, aspirin, ritalin,  
claritan, etc.) -- and left the obscure ones.

I had similar problems lately where "specialist" was blocked because  
"cialis" is in the list...etc.

Crisses
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