Forum:CT:AbuseFilter

Well, I've been thinking about this for a while. The AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension that filters edits in order to monitor or prevent abusive edits. Some of you may have seen this extension at work at Wookieepedia, Wikipedia, and the YourWiki wiki farm. UESP is also considering this extension.

As you may have noticed, there's a troll who really, really dislikes User:Brandon Rhea for some reason. Normally, trolls would move on by now, but this troll's grudge with Brandon is very strong for some reason and she or he has refused to stop. Bans aren't stopping the persistence of this troll, so I feel that he need something stronger than bans: a kick-@$$, regex-powered extension that can prevent or tag vandalism at the moment it happens.

The AbuseFilter can flag revisions that seem shady, it can issue warnings, it can disallow certain actions, it can block users, and it can even "degroup" rollbackers or sysops. Of course, we wouldn't allow the filter to "degroup" anyone since that would give too much power in the hands of a machine that doesn't think on a case-by-case basis, and I think we could trust the sysops enough to keep their passwords safe from hackers.

The extension works on regular expressions (regex). The syntax basically looks like this but more complex. We can import filters from Wookieepedia and Wikipedia if we need to. We could request aid from Wookieepedia as well.

Of course, we can't disallow account creations since that would be unfair to the other Brandon's of the world, but we could disallow inappropriate page moves and such. See starwars:Forum:SH Archive/AbuseFilter in order to see the Wookieepedian discussion concerning the AbuseFilter.

--Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 03:45, December 5, 2009 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) As the proposer. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 03:45, December 5, 2009 (UTC)