Last modified: 2011-04-30 01:20:45 UTC
Novice users like to write http://mywiki.com/wiki/My_article instead of [[my article]]. Provide a global variable, $wgForbiddenExternalLinks, that prevents this from working. // Array of regexps $wgForbiddenExternalLinks = array(); $wgForbiddenExternalLinks[] = "http://mywiki.com/wiki/.*" When a user writes http://mywiki.com/wiki/My_article or [http://mywiki.com/wiki/My_article foo], the link itself is not rendered. A system message Mediawiki:forbiddenexternalinks is displayed, defaulting to "Don't use external links to yourself; use internal link syntax, [[article name]]."
External links to the wiki are perfectly valid, if not pretty :p This is a new blacklist in disguise. If you want to blacklist these sorts of self-links, it should be possible to utilize one of the existing ones or the AbuseFilter or something. This is attempting to fix a documentation/social issue with a technical solution. WONTFIX.
