Markie - Agreed. Dantman - We will evaluate it when it becomes more stable.
Thanks, Bill 2009/3/26 Mark (Markie) <newsmar...@googlemail.com>: > the extension is still in its early stages with many changes occuring every > day to the code, therefore implementing it would be impractical as it would > a) likely still have lots of bugs and b) would require code review and push > every time new bugs were changed. imo its worth waiting a short time to get > a good version than to implement it now whilst its still under heavy testing > and fixes to get a broken version. > > regards > > mark > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Friesen <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com> > wrote: >> >> There was an interesting posting to wikitech earlier about Abuse Filter. >> Any thoughts on getting the extension on Wikia? >> >> Rather than just serious filtering of bad behavior it looks like there >> are interesting soft filters that can spit out a message to the user and >> ask for confirmation. >> The fact that such a message set for page blanking turned 56 of 78 page >> blanking actions into constructive wiki edits is very intriguing. >> >> I can definitely see a good use for that kind of feature, especially >> fitting in with Wikia's ideas for getting new contributors to a wiki. >> I can think of a good number of filters I could put on the Narutopedia >> which would give a friendly message telling a newbie "You're trying to >> do this? It's not normally considered polite here, maybe you wanted to >> do this instead?" to help point out things which normally would end up >> with someone from the community reverting, tagging for deletion, or >> whatnot. >> Bleh, to bad it can't catch C&P page moves or copyvios from LeafNinja.com. >> >> -- >> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> >> I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated >> on English Wikipedia! >> >> The Abuse Filter is an extension to the MediaWiki [2] software that >> powers Wikipedia allowing automatic "filters" or "rules" to be run >> against every edit, and to take actions if any of those rules are >> triggered. It is designed to combat vandalism which is simple and >> pattern-based, from blanking pages to complicated evasive page-move >> vandalism. >> >> We've already seen some pretty cool uses for the Abuse Filter. While >> there are filters for the obvious personal attacks [3], many of our >> filters are there just to identify common newbie mistakes such >> page-blanking [4], give the users a friendly warning [5] and ask them >> if they really want to submit their edits. >> >> The best part is that these friendly "soft" warning messages seem to >> work in passively changing user behaviour. Just the suggestion that we >> frown on page-blanking was enough to stop 56 of the 78 matches [6] of >> that filter when I checked. If you look closely, you'll even find that >> many of the users took our advice and redirected the page or did >> something else more constructive instead. >> >> I'm very pleased at my work being used so well on English Wikipedia, >> and I'm looking forward to seeing some quality filters in the near >> future! While at the moment, some of the harsher actions such as >> blocking are disabled on Wikimedia, we're hoping that the filters >> developed will be good enough that we can think about activating them >> in the future. >> >> If anybody has any questions or concerns about the Abuse Filter, feel >> free to file a bug [7], contact me on IRC (werdna on >> irc.freenode.net), post on my user talk page, or send me an email at >> agarrett at wikimedia.org >> >> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter >> [2] http://www.mediawiki.org >> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/9 >> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/3 >> [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-blanking >> [6] >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=3 >> [7] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org >> >> -- >> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com] >> -Nadir-Point & Wiki-Tools (http://nadir-point.com) (http://wiki-tools.com) >> -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.org) >> -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) >> -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) >> -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com) >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikia Community Mailing List. >> >> For information and subscriptions see >> http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l >> >> Need staff help? 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