Talk:Abuse filter

Filter 37 at Meta

This filter, which prevent anons from editing user pages, incorrectly claims that the anon is blanking the page. 81.227.149.200 01:49, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

You're right, filter 37 is doing that, and it's not the filter's stated purpose. I've refined it to make it try and catch only blanking, instead of any edit by an anon to a page in the User: namespace. Courcelles 03:09, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Abuse

There's been some talk about it but not any action: AbuseFilter is greatly abused on some wikis, mainly because users don't know what they're doing, someone should check all wikis to note the worst cases and warn the local community, which will usually be completely unaware of what the veyr few users "knowing" the tool are doing. In the past I've reported some strange filters on zh.wiki which have been changed or disabled; hi:special:abusefilter is an example of outright abuse. Nemo 00:02, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Monitoring

The need has emerged in the past to list all filters created by SWMT members to avoid forgetting them; moreover, general usage of filters should be monitored to prevent abuse. I've opened a request to create a tool which will help with both; in the meanwhile, here's some stats: [1] [2]. Nemo 10:25, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Here some examples of big or small possible problems I found, and reported to the local wiki. Many filters are left alone and nobody looks at them because the users who created them are now inactive. See: zh-yue.wiki, tr.wiki, ar.wiki (lots of hits and most of them disallowing), fi.wiki (not sure), fa.wikt (nothing smells here, but still worth checking given the number of hits; same on fa.wiki), en.source (only inefficiency). A while ago I reported some weirdness to the zh.wiki community and they changed some things; the hit rate seems still high but I haven't checked the current situation, anyway it was very mild compared to what I see on other wikis. Nemo 15:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC)