MediaWiki talk:Titlewhitelist

So what is this page supposed to do? The Wikimon (talk) 14:23, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page is a complement to MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, as well as the global blacklists on (I believe) Meta. Any page matching a pattern on this page will be allowed to be created, even if it would otherwise be blocked by one of the blacklists. As an example: a while ago, User:7&6=thirteen was having issues creating a sandbox in his user space. IIRC, this happened because the global title blacklist on Meta disallows the creation of pages with the characters "&" and "=" in them (those characters have special meanings when placed in web addresses). So, I put an entry into the whitelist here that overrides the blacklist entry, allowing 7&6=thirteen to create subpages in his userspace despite the blacklist. Writ Keeper  14:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot. Makes whole lotta sense now! And more importantly its not meant or me! The Wikimon (talk) 15:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]