Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5175866-20130310000410/@comment-188432-20130312005858

Oh, that's an interesting use of emoticons. I hadn't thought about that. The user, though, is claiming not to know swear words, which might make the operationalisation of this idea difficult. I think he or she is trying to get someone else to "expose themselves" to the swear words in order to offer the fix. If that's what you're saying, Superdadsuper, then you'll have to make someone else an admin, at least temporarily, so that they can handle that for you.

Even if another person makes this fix for you, however, eventually you are probably going to have take care of maintenance on the file. So you probably should just bite the bullet and use MediaWiki:badWords as your basis for the procedure indicated above. Truth is, you can't really protect yourself from exposure to "bad" words, since you kinda have to know what the "bad" words are to prevent them.

Or you could always go with the theory that the very people who use "bad" words are the ones who could do with study of the Bible and just, yanno, not worry about censorship.