> I think how to notify the interested parties of archiving failures is > a general issue, not just for failures related to abuse filters. I > created a Phabricator task for that a while ago. [2]
Sorry, I forgot the link: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124407 (and there was no [1].) Best, Yusuke On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Yusuke Matsubara <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I believe in this case we should somehow implement 'press Save again' > in the bot. I don't know if the MediaWiki API allows this, but if not, > I think it should be added (to the AbuseFilter extension?). > > If the edit was 'blocked' by an abuse filter, things would be more > complicated because we would definitely need an admin to look at the > case (and thus need for notification). > >> A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been archived for a long time >> before we noticed it. >> It just silently failed, with logging being the only action. > > I think how to notify the interested parties of archiving failures is > a general issue, not just for failures related to abuse filters. I > created a Phabricator task for that a while ago. [2] > > Best, > Yusuke > > On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: >> A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been archived for a long time >> before we noticed it. >> Investigation showed that the bot had hit a warning-type abuse filter upon >> copying the text to archive and saving. In this case the abuse filter >> displays a warning and lets the user press Save again if he/she wants to do >> it anyway. >> Of course, the archivebot >> >> did not save the page for the second time (could it?) >> did not pass the problematic section and archive the remainder >> did not let the owner know about the problem. >> >> It just silently failed, with logging being the only action. >> >> So what would the desired behaviour be in a similar case? Please keep in >> mind that archivebot is tyoically run with cron or other timing, not in >> interactive mode. >> >> >> To see the log click on https://tools.wmflabs.org/ato/log/archive.txt and >> ctrl f for >> >> ERROR: editpage: abusefilter-warning >> >> >> -- >> Bináris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pywikibot mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot >> _______________________________________________ pywikibot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot
