Forum:AbuseFilter on Narutopedia

It looks like Angela is interested in trying out the AbuseFilter extension on a few wiki here on Wikia. So we're probably going to be trying out the extension here on the Narutopedia.

For a quick overview AbuseFilter is an extension which can apply "rules" to edits. It works using filters on things like text matches on the text that was added, if the page is a new page, how much the user has edited, the article's contributors, what action they tried to do, etc... and it allows automatic actions to be taken such as posting a warning up that they need to confirm, throttling what they are doing, rejecting that edit, blocking them, revoking autoconfirmed status or permissions flags, or flagging their edit so it shows up in various pages like the recent changes with a big marker on it.

For example, on Wikipedia they applied a filter that put up a notice that required confirmation whenever a user a user tried to blank a page explaining why it's a bad edit, and what the user could try doing instead of blanking the page. A large number of those attempted page blanking edits actually became constructive edits to the wiki instead of page blanking. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 30, 2009 @ 05:01 (UTC)

I'm open to suggestions on things we can put filters on. Right now I'm thinking of notices on things like:
 * Page blanking
 * Adding romaji like Pein, Kyubi, etc... to a page
 * Using incorrect romaji like Hyuuga, etc...
 * Bad MoS links like chidori
 * Some of the types of link bypassing like Sasuke
 * One or two line articles that are not redirects
 * Creation of a User: page from a user who doesn't have many edits


 * How about anonymous users making edits like "eeeeeeeeeeeee or fsdfsfsf" u get the pic...cause i've noticed thats very common in vandalisin....or is that filter a bit hard to put up? ..-- AlienGamer--Talk-- 05:26, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Not as a generic. However, if you see any common patterns in garbage that anons add to pages regular expressions can be used to match stuff like it and filter out those edits. For example, if you specifically saw a lot of "eeeeeeeee" edits, I could do something like 'new_wikitext rlike "e{5,}"' which would filter the edit if the new wikitext being saved contained 5 or more consecutive "e"s in it. I think I can also do specifics for anons vs. editors. So for something harsh I could completely reject anon edits that look like bad edits and tell them "If you are trying to make a legitimate edit please sign up for a quick account and try the edit again". ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 30, 2009 @ 05:38 (UTC)


 * Awesome...And another idea..how about anonymous users removing large sections frm pages....they sometimes dont go to the extent of blankin the article, but will remove sections of that article..-- AlienGamer--Talk-- 06:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)