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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] 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] and medium[4] public WMF wikis, and those large wikis that opt-in.[5] The stewards and meta administrators are able to set global abuse filters.[6]

Permissions configuration comparison edit

Notes edit

  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. https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt, search for "wmgUseGlobalAbuseFilters"
  6. User groups with abusefilter-modify-global rights.
  7. View the abuse log
  8. Blocked users cannot view the abuse log
  9. View detailed abuse log entries
  10. Also Global Rollback on all wikis, start from mid-April 2011
  11. Create or modify abuse filters
  12. Modify abuse filters with restricted actions
  13. View private data in the abuse log
  14. View abuse filters marked as private; also implied by abusefilter-modify
  15. Revert all changes by a given abuse filter
  16. View abuse filters
  17. a b All users, even unregistered ones.

See also edit