User:Beetstra/Overhaul AbuseFilter

Overhaul AbuseFilter

Edit proposal/discussion

• Problem: Per admission by Ryan Kaldari (WMF) during the 2018 Community Wishlist Survey: " Unfortunately, the AbuseFilter extension has been mostly unmaintained for years and would need to be overhauled ...".
• Who would benefit: Editors on all Wikipedia's
• Proposed solution: Free resources to overhaul the AbuseFilter.

• More comments: Previous discussions: Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Admins and patrollers/Overhaul spam-blacklist

• Phabricator tickets: task T20110

• Proposer: --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 07:27, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

• Suggested addition: have an option 'show captcha' as result for a hit, with that, both for IPs and logged in editors, you can filter whether an account is genuine and not a spambot. It may be annoying for the regular editor who is acting in good faith, but should stop most of the bot edits and could be used to thwart vandals. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 08:41, 29 October 2019 (UTC)