Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150814190019/@comment-25739558-20150815002758

Whether the blacklist vs. whitelist debate is still an issue or not, a whitelist is more secure in any situation. Simply blacklisting all MediaWiki pages (which can, in fact affect the Wikia mainframe even though they are located on a subdomain) and allowing only high traffic/priority MediaWiki to be edited is much easier to control and spot. If it were just a blacklist of a select number of pages, then malicious code could easily be loaded into the Wikia mainframe through a small and unknown wikia; thus causing yet another security issue like the one that was just investigated. Web security is a serious and difficult issue to resolve in any span of time. Staff are doing all they can to resolve this quickly and effectively, while protecting your security as a user while using Wikia's services. --