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It also mostly checks for English naughty words and not much else. People can have fun in lots of other languages, so it would seem this is a small sample.

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You can't do all of them. Here is an example: in my native language Pula is a slur for male genitalia (way worse than D*ick in English) but at the same time it's the name of Botswana currency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula) and also a city in Croatia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula).

Some near the end looked like they might be in another language, but I won't be the one to find out.

It used to be "if I search for this term, am I accidentally going to wind up getting goatse or something?" The good old days.

Now it's "if I search for this term, is the FBI going to kick my door in?"

I was pedantic about it in the good old days too, it's goatse.cx and not goatse

you need the domain to make the goat-sex joke work

Woah, 20+ years later and I literally had no idea until now. Learn something new every day, but somehow this one is shocking because of how obvious it is and how long it took :)

There was a lot more horrifying stuff on that site besides hello.jpg, but most everyone recoiled in horror before they saw anything else.

There are a few German words in the lists.

After looking through it quickly it seems to do the same as most profanity checks with Dutch: it doesn't block "kut" (a crude word for female genitalia) but it does block "kunt" (third person form of "can")

Here's one that does/doesn't!

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Filter/10

Unfortunately it seems I don't have access to that page. Do I need to be a Wikipedia editor?

Ah, that's right—need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once?

That's what the linked page says (I'm not familiar with Dutch Wikipedia specifics), but that seems like such a strange statistic to track instead of minimum edit count.

So weird that I looked up how to configure MediaWiki autoconfirm requirements. They probably mean a minimum of one edit. Auto-confirmation considers only age and edit count, and I don't see why clicking 'Edit' is so meaningful a condition to warrant developing an extension.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Autoconfirmed_users

Searching about extensions did lead to discovering an obscure feature: there's now a built-in URL shortener: https://w.wiki/Q8

Edit: interestingly, the single-character ones seem to have been pre-planned: https://w.wiki/e, https://w.wiki/E, https://w.wiki/4

> need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once

In the Dutch WP? Because otherwise I should qualify.

Yep; the account for each wiki is automatically created the first time you visit that wiki, and rights are mostly local.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login

You can list your local accounts at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth

And specifically Italian blasphemy for some reason…

One word, that starts with V, and isn't Vagina.

Bunch of ineffective entries too, all patterns containing underscores won't ever match.

Underscore matches any single char, so those patterns work fine. It’s an efficient way to match any small separator, like space, dashes, etc.

I didn't know _ is a metachar in LIKE expressions, thanks! Not the first time its syntax caught me off-guard.

It only has two, doesn't it? Underscore for "any single character", and percent for "any string of characters", AFAIK.

Is Twitch's footprint big enough internationally that they have to worry about it?

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