https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40672

Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[email protected],
                   |                            |[email protected]
            Summary|Abuse filter for very short |Abuse filter: Increase 5%
                   |posts                       |limit to allow filtering
                   |                            |for very short posts

--- Comment #2 from Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> 2012-10-22 21:29:13 
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Hi Andre, 

I believe we will need to make a modification to the Abuse filter extension to
increase the cutoff for disabling articles to a higher value than 5% --
possibly up to 10%. 

Right now, filter 458 only disallows posts with 2 characters or less, because
it gets automatically disabled if we try 3, 4 or 5 characters. We really want
to disallow posts with 5 characters or less ASAP, and ultimately even 10
characters or less. One way to accomplish that is to increase the value for
disabling articles.

To quote extension creator Andrew Garrett: "The AbuseFilter has a special
mechanism for new filters in which filters that match more than X% of the
actions that they are compared against are disabled. It is presumed that any
filter that matches more than X% of actions is out of control. The current
value of X is 5. In order to determine whether a filter matching more than X%
of actions is actually out of control or just unlucky, we need a decent sample
size. So the minimum sample size is Y, the variable that we changed from 2 to
25."

The goal would be to have a higher cut-off for feedback than for edits -- so we
don't disrupt the current cutoff used for edits, only increase the cutoff for
feedback posts …

We are now waiting for Andrew Garrett and Matthias Mullie to offer a
recommendation on that point, as well as assess the complexity of this proposed
revision. 

If we're only talking about a couple hours of development, I think we should do
it, so we don't have to keep resetting the filters manually. I suspect that we
will need a higher limit anyway before we can deploy AFT5 to 100%.

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