Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31811098-20151120124259

Ok, so first off, look at this blog on the Community Central. Now, Ducksoup`s thread announced that verbatim will be removed.

According to the thread, it says: Verbatim is a Wikia tool to inject HTML code into pages with minimal effort and fuss. You’ve done some amazing things with it. It’s also insecure and dangerous.

You may recall that we had a security issue back in August, which we talked about in the forum. Since then, we’ve been performing a complete security audit on Wikia to ensure that the site is as secure as it can be. We’ve made a significant number of improvements on the back end already, and we’ll continue to roll out new features going forward, like the Javascript review process, MediaWiki whitelist and the new security form to report security concerns.

You might also recall the security issue that August when weekends were bad luck to wikia after an account used for Quality Testing has been hacked. They had no choice but to scan the verbatim tag for security issues. And the result - very bad.

The Facebook posts by Rovio and Daily Challenge on the Main Page were empty, for the safety of all of Wikia, especially here.

 