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: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
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's test filter" warning="Don'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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