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The Edit filter is a tool used to allow trusted users to set specific controls on user activity and create automated reactions for certain behaviors. The Abuse Filter extension was developed by Werdna with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and went live on the [[wikipedia:|English Wikipedia]] in March 2009. As of July 2009, nearly all user-facing elements of the filter refer to it as the Edit filter as not all the edits it flags are abusive. In the software and special pages it retains its original name.

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  • Admin Tools Wiki:Edit filter
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  • The Edit filter is a tool used to allow trusted users to set specific controls on user activity and create automated reactions for certain behaviors. The Abuse Filter extension was developed by Werdna with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and went live on the [[wikipedia:|English Wikipedia]] in March 2009. As of July 2009, nearly all user-facing elements of the filter refer to it as the Edit filter as not all the edits it flags are abusive. In the software and special pages it retains its original name.
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  • What follows was written when the extension was first created, and may be somewhat out of date.
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  • The Edit filter is a tool used to allow trusted users to set specific controls on user activity and create automated reactions for certain behaviors. The Abuse Filter extension was developed by Werdna with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and went live on the [[wikipedia:|English Wikipedia]] in March 2009. As of July 2009, nearly all user-facing elements of the filter refer to it as the Edit filter as not all the edits it flags are abusive. In the software and special pages it retains its original name. The extension allows automatic filters/heuristics to be applied to all edits. Specific rules can be developed, such as “users with fewer than 500 edits are blocked from moving pages to titles which match this regular expression: /poop/”. Of course, the rules can get quite a bit more complicated. Log entries are viewable by all users, and while filters are by default publicly viewable, others are set to be private. For all filters, including those hidden from public view, a brief, general summary of what the rule targets will be available, and displayed in the log, the list of active filters, and in any error messages generated by the filter. Implementation of Extension:AbuseFilter at Admin Tools Wiki is being done with due caution — most abuse filters should be tested for a few days (in “log only” mode) before being brought to full force (“warn”, “disallow”, or “throttle” modes). Only members of specific groups are allowed to modify any of the filters, and this group is assignable by the Active Bureaucrats Group. The assignment of the Edit filter manager user right to non-Administrators is highly restricted. It should only be requested by, and given to, highly trusted users, and only when there is a clear, demonstrated need for it. Demonstrated ability that one can and will safely use it is absolutely critical. This is because widespread disruption of the entire site can easily occur — even unintentionally — with the smallest of mistakes in changing edit filters. Therefore, demonstrated knowledge of the extension’s syntax and confidence in understanding and crafting regular expressions (i.e., “regexes”) is absolutely essential. Non-Administrators should consider helping out at requested edit filters and troubleshooting at false positives in order to help demonstrate these skills. Requests for assignment of the group to non-Administrators can be made at the discussion page, where a discussion will be held for up to a week prior to a decision being made. Discussion may extend beyond a week if appropriate consensus, or lack of it, is not clear.
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