Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-126761-20151028142116

Removing Verbatim certainly does reduce the risk of unlocking MediaWiki namespace pages - but it does not eliminate the problem entirely, unfortunately. Security reviews of each message are still warranted, so we'll be continuing to expand the whitelist in the short term.

We know whitelist expansion has slowed recently (due to limited developer resources), but we have a list that we're continuing to work down. I'll make sure it's at the forefront of the team's minds.