Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Miscellaneous/Multiple protocol support in Special:Linksearch

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Multiple protocol support in Special:Linksearch

Problem: Currently, I have to do two separate link searches to find links to cover both secure and non-secure links e.g. Special:Linksearch/*.example.com and Special:Linksearch/https://*.example.com.

Who would benefit: Anyone who uses this special page.

Proposed solution: At the very least, linksearch should return results for HTTP and HTTPS combined when no protocol is specified.

More comments: Google now (rightfully so) boosts rankings for HTTPS sites and I am seeing HTTPS spam much more often as a consequence. Why do I need to ask the WMF to address glaring technical debt and software rot in MediaWiki three times and wait almost a decade for a fix?

Phabricator tickets: phab:T14810

Proposer: MER-C (talk) 12:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion

Much needed, small and tangible fix! Sadads (talk) 20:19, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Simple and no brainer. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:06, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Lack of this feature is a roadblock to several tasks I try to perform. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:00, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Checking for and cleaning up after spammers is a lot more difficult without this as mentioned. Similarly for tasks with interwiki mapping is made harder in the absence. Yes it only affects a smaller number of people, they are however, some of the real backroom workers that enhance the user experience. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support per my comment above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 23:57, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tim Landscheidt (talk) 01:34, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rs chen 7754 01:35, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support as proposer. MER-C (talk) 01:41, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 06:52, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mahir256 (talk) 08:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dvorapa (talk) 09:18, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vachovec1 (talk) 11:07, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:11, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 13:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 14:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rcdeboer (talk) 15:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support BWolff (WMF) (talk) 22:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Luchesar • T/C 23:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 03:09, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paucabot (talk) 17:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support I was just wishing for this a couple of days ago when I was checking if we already had pages for some organizations with particular websites. Yes please! ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:39, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Izno (talk) 03:56, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support – this blindspot/gotcha wasn't even documented on en.wp until recently, given that not typing any protocol is seen as an implicit web URL. DMacks (talk) 05:17, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 08:01, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Long overdue 😂 (talk) 01:37, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szoltys (talk) 12:09, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 14:56, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- seth (talk) 11:10, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Galobtter (talk) 12:44, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:44, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Helps to address the spam problem Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:29, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yeza (talk) 18:33, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support the wub "?!" 00:51, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 09:11, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nikkimaria (talk) 19:10, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support X:: black ::X (talk) 09:55, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruslik (talk) 18:07, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Haxpett (talk) 00:33, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support NicoScribe (talk) 09:48, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — NickK (talk) 17:38, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]