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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
