Guillaume Paumier wrote: > The AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki, which helps prevent vandalism > on wikis, will be globally enabled on all Wikimedia projects later > today. > > More information is available at http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=6106
>From <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter>: > AbuseFilter allows privileged users to set specific controls on actions by > users, such as edits, and create automated reactions for certain behaviors. Was there any discussion about giving every Wikimedia user an "abuse log"? I don't really have any objection to the AbuseFilter (beyond the performance implications, particularly with poorly written filters), but there are very legitimate issues with giving every user a publicly accessible "abuse log". The English Wikipedia basically renamed the entire extension to EditFilter. Subsequently messages such as "abuse log" were changed to "filter log". (The whole extension should be renamed to "ActionFilter" in my opinion.) Was there any discussion about the possible mischievous uses of this extension and how to curb them? Small wikis are particularly susceptible to abuse if a few local admins want every article to not include a particular viewpoint or particular phrases. Is there any plan to monitor this? MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
