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The AbuseFilter MediaWiki extension allows privileged users to set specific controls on user activity and create automated reactions for certain behaviors. It was first enabled on English Wikipedia on March 2009[1] and subsequently enabled on all public Wikimedia projects. Changes of the default configuration may be made on request.[2] Access to abuse log is restricted. Please update the following table when you request the abuse filter to be enabled (the local Special:ListGroupRights page can help).

Global abuse filters were subsequently implemented and are set and operated from Meta-Wiki. These global filters apply to small,[3] medium,[4] and large[5] public WMF wikis except those that opted out.[6] The stewards and meta administrators are able to set global abuse filters.[7]

Permissions configuration comparison

Notes

  1. w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-03-23/Abuse_Filter.
  2. Requests must be filed on Phabricator. See examples of previous requests.
  3. small wikis
  4. medium wikis
  5. large wikis
  6. https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt, search for "wmgUseGlobalAbuseFilters"
  7. User groups with abusefilter-modify-global rights.
  8. View the abuse log
  9. Blocked users cannot view the abuse log
  10. View detailed abuse log entries
  11. Also Global Rollback on all wikis, start from mid-April 2011
  12. Create or modify abuse filters
  13. Modify abuse filters with restricted actions
  14. View private data in the abuse log
  15. View abuse filters marked as private; also implied by abusefilter-modify
  16. Revert all changes by a given abuse filter
  17. View abuse filters
  18. a b All users, even unregistered ones.

See also