2009/3/18 Casey Brown <[email protected]>: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > 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 > > -- > Andrew Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 >
Yay! I know I've been waiting for this for a long time and in fact was just thinking about it today. I had no idea it was so close to being enabled. Thanks to everyone involved. Pete / the wub _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
