Abuse filter helpers

Policies and guidelines

Abuse filter helpers policy & information

This page outlines the standards and guidelines related to the Abuse filter helpers and their use of their rights to manage Abuse filters globally.

The Abuse filter helpers global group was created to allow its users global access to view private data in the abuse log in the abuse filters on projects with it enabled. Additionally, it allows viewing of the spam blacklist log.

Assigned rights

• View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
• View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
• View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
• View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
• View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
• View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog)

Rights specifically not assigned

• Modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
• Create or modify global abuse filters (abusefilter-modify-global)
• Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
• Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)

See also

• Abuse filter helpers: global permission · global groups (toolforge) · member list · group changelog
• Special global permissions
• Abuse filter editors
• AbuseFilter (with wikis configurations comparison)
• AbuseFilter extension