https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67936
Bug ID: 67936
Summary: Provide a sane way to bypass abuse filters
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: AbuseFilter
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
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Mobile Platform: ---
Users have wanted a way to let certain users bypass AbuseFilter's restrictions
for a long time. Wikia has already written a hack to allow it. It's also
recently become a problem for us with global rename. I propose that we create a
proper way to do it, with the following characteristics:
1. The filter checks themselves are not bypassed. Hits will still be logged,
tagged, etc. The only effect will be that the action isn't disallowed.
2. In most cases*, users will be required to explicitly state their intention
to bypass abuse filters with each action. This would take the form of a
checkbox from the UI (like titleblacklist currently does for account creation)
and an additional parameter from the API.
3. If a filter has Warn as an action, and it's practical to show a warning*,
the warning will not be bypassed.
These rules will strongly encourage wikis to still properly set
user_groups/user_rights conditions in their filters, while still providing the
bypass ability when necessary.
*Global rename is one case where explicitly choosing to bypass wouldn't be
required and where showing warnings wouldn't be practical.
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