Thanks Pine! So far there were a few false positives but they have been identified and their accounts re-enabled.
I'm periodically monitoring the activity feed for any more false positives but I don't expect more since I adjusted the filter in response to what I've learned. (Sorry for the late reply, this got left unsent in my drafts folder by mistake) On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 4:53 PM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Mukunda. I am experiencing a shortage of good news today, so I'm > glad to read about your work on this. > > Hopefully people whose accounts are accidentally disabled will be > understanding, and hopefully their recovery experiences will be simple and > straightforward. > > Regards, > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 9:34 PM Mukunda Modell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Anti-vandalism functionality has now been deployed in Phabricator for a > > while. After adjusting the parameters in response to a few initial issues > > and letting it run over the weekend, I'm now fairly confident in the > > algorithm. It should reliably detect and disable accounts which are doing > > automated edits (except for the bots that we have white-listed ). In > > addition, it should be unlikely to affect users due to normal user > activity > > like task submission / editing / commenting, etc. When a user account is > > disabled due to antivandalism, a notification is posted into the > > phabricator event feed[1]. If any account is disabled due to a false > > positive, then any phabricator admin may re-enable the account in the > usual > > way within phabricator's 'manage user' UI. > > > > If anyone has any questions, or notices a problem, please let me know! > > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/feed/query/all/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
