Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Larger suggestions/Create CheckUser-level and Oversight-level abuse filters
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Create CheckUser-level and Oversight-level abuse filters
- Problem: In some cases of harassment, for example when a long terme abuser discloses personal information about legitimate editors (doxing), there is a need of using private information in an abuse filter (to prevent those information to be disclosed on wiki). As all AbuseFilter editors can currently access it, this is not possible for privacy reasons.
- Proposed solution: Create CheckUser-level and Oversight-level abuse filters, only accessible to checkusers and oversighters. Corresponding logs should also be private, obviously.
- Who would benefit: AbuseFilter editors, harassed editors, everyone
- More comments: Maybe only one type of private abuse filters, accessible to both checkusers and oversighters, would be enough; it remains to be discussed. On the other hand, there may be specific variables handy for checkusers only (see phab ticket below).
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T234155 and phab:T290324
- Proposer: — Jules* Talk 10:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- @Jules*: Hello and thanks for taking the time to write this proposal. Unfortunately, this is out of scope for our team but an idea that's valid nonetheless. I am therefore moving it to the Larger Suggestions Category. Thanks again! Regards, DWalden (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Mr.Nobody03 (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Harass filters can't be viewed by administrators (there are a lot of admins, although fewer than in the past) Thingofme (talk) 14:12, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —Thanks for the fish! talk•contrib (he/him) 22:26, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Sgd. —Hasley 23:21, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 19:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Earlier this year I was actually talking to some of my homewiki (enwiki) Oversighters about something like this. Could be super useful. Giraffer (talk) 22:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:31, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Bédévore (talk) 15:46, 8 February 2022 (UTC)