[Bug 55460] New: No reliable way to detect when an API edit is disallowed by the abuse filter

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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55460

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            Bug ID: 55460
           Summary: No reliable way to detect when an API edit is
                    disallowed by the abuse filter
           Product: MediaWiki extensions
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Unprioritized
         Component: AbuseFilter
          Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
          Reporter: at.li...@live.com.au
                CC: agarr...@wikimedia.org, nischay...@gmail.com
    Classification: Unclassified
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I set up an abuse filter on testwiki that warns the user with the MediaWiki
message "snorkel-abuse" and also disallows the action. When triggering this
filter using the API (action=edit) I get this:

<?xml version="1.0"?><api><edit code="snorkel-abuse" info="Hit AbuseFilter:
TTO&#039;s test filter" warning="Don&#039;t create snorkel pages"
result="Failure" /></api>

The only way to test for AbuseFilter being hit appears to be to check whether
the "info" parameter starts with the string "Hit AbuseFilter". This seems a bit
hackish.

The spam blacklist manages to do better than this, providing its own
spamblacklist attribute on the <edit> element. AbuseFilter should be able to do
better too.

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