Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>At least twice I found AbuseFilters that prevented people from testing
>extensions that I develop or posting feedback about them on MediaWiki.org
>and the beta testing sites (such as
>http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page ).
>
>[...]
>
>One of them filtered out the whole Russian alphabet, so the extension
>couldn't be tested by Russian-speaking users. Another one didn't allow
>submitting Flow posts that don't have a sufficient amount of English words
>from users who have less than 6 edits, so users who have a lot of edits in
>their home wikis, but no edits in mediawiki.org, and who want to post in
>languages other than English are blocked. Luckily, one of those people
>pinged me directly, but I don't know how much useful feedback was filtered
>out and lost.

I have also had issues with AbuseFilter filter false positives on
mediawiki.org. My approach has been to disable the problematic filters
immediately and leave an explanatory note at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:AbuseFilter>.

MZMcBride



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