https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45272
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Bug ID: 45272
Summary: Creating new section makes summary inconsistent
between testing and real abuse filter application
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: AbuseFilter
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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When an abuse filter is tested on past changes from RC, the edit summary (the
“summary” AF variable) is filled with the contents of rc_comment (which is e.g.
“/* Section name */ new section”). However, when the filter is really applied
during an edit which adds a new section (using action=edit§ion=new), the
hook is called with $summary without any of the section syntax, e.g. just
“Section name”.
1) The inconsistency is wrong by itself, because it makes filter development
and testing quite difficult.
2) I would _really_ like to be able to recognize edits to sections (and
creating new sections) because of spambot filtering. (E.g. not many humans
create new userpages as action=edit§ion=new, but many bots do exactly
that.)
Not sure about the proper way to fix that, though. This seems more like a
lower-level inconsistency in MediaWiki (the EditFilterMerged[Content] hook
versus what gets stored in the RC table). Not sure if the hook behavior could
change, even in such a small aspect...
On second thought, this might be really just a bug in EditPage: When you _edit_
an already existing section, the hook is called with the whole $summary = '/*
Section name */ user comment', but when you create a _new_ section, the hook is
called with just $summary = 'Section name'. This does not seem to be logical.
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