417 235 0 0 0 1 0 default 20090928231159 157 Your mom jokes silly_vandalism or ‘personal_attacks’. But it was only in logging mode and enabled for 4 days, probably got merged into another filter
418 674 0 0 0 0 0 default 20161015072323 disallow 156 Long term infobox vandal long_term_abuse as per name and comments
419 906 1 0 1 0 0 default 20180721164347 disallow 154 Alan Jackson Vandal hidden_vandalism
420 745 1 0 0 0 0 default 20170228011409 154 Talk page abuse talk_page_vandalism as per name
424 168 0 0 0 1 0 default 20090830005433 warn 148 Non-admins responding to unblock requests good_faith none of the existing more specific good_faith tags cuts it and I cannot think of anything sensible
425 542 1 0 0 1 0 default 20160614034012 147 Open proxies II wiki_policy
426 240 0 0 0 1 0 default 20091127160918 147 Used lifetime over/with/as well as existing apparatus unclear I don’t quite get the problem targeted by this filter
432 125 0 0 0 1 0 default 20090429124019 138 Insertion of repeated phrases silly_vandalism at least that’s what they’re targeting imho. What actually get caught by the filter is sometimes as innocuous as whitespaces consisting of 4 blanks.
461 604 0 0 0 1 0 default 20140303202400 107 Keyboard mashing silly_vandalism “Deleting, AFTv5 removed from WMF wikis --Legoktm 03/03/13” // filter’s group used to be ‘feedback’; sound like pressing random keys
463 690 0 0 0 0 0 default 20170512133607 disallow 107 Smoothest Ashu sockpuppetry As per comments: “See [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Smoothestaashu007]]. Log only for now. --Samwalton9, 25 May 2015”
464 201 0 0 0 0 0 default 20130414054340 106 KoH test filter test
465 288 1 0 0 1 0 default 20160824183226 disallow 105 IP reverting/wikistalking by banned user hidden_vandalism name alone not descriptive enough for assigning ‘harassment’
474 385 1 0 0 1 0 default 20120808231407 throttle,disallow 96 Prevent new users from making mass pagemoves page_move_vandalism as per name, action and being hidden
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ It is not, as some seem to believe, intended to block profanity in articles (tha
A lot of filters are disabled/deleted bc:
* they hit too many false positives
* they were implemented to target specific incidents and these vandalism attempts stopped
* they were implemented to target specific incidents and these vandalism attempts stopped :663
* they were tested and merged into other filters
* there were too few hits and the conditions were too expensive
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@@ -482,7 +482,8 @@ Multiple filters have the comment "let's see whether this hits something", which
** irregular?
* What do filters target: general behaviour vs edits by single users
** there are quite some filters targeting particular users: 290 (targets an IP range), 177 ('User:Television Radio')
** there are quite some filters targeting particular users: 290 (targets an IP range), 177 ('User:Television Radio'), 663 ('Techno genre warrior
', targets specific IP ranges)
** there are also some targetting particular pages (verify!), although this clashed with the guidelines: 264 "Specific-page vandalism" (it's hidden though, so we don't know what exactly it's doing)
** and there are some filtering in general
** there are also filters such as 199 (Unflagged bots) which were implemented in order to track something which was not quite malicious or abusive and were thus deemed inappropriate use of filters by the community and consequently (quite swiftly) deleted
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@@ -520,7 +521,7 @@ It is calling attention that nearly 2/3 of all edit filters are not viewable by
%TODO: remark that it was to investigate this historically; or is there still an easy way to do this?
The guidelines call for hiding filters ``only where necessary, such as in long-term abuse cases where the targeted user(s) could review a public filter and use that knowledge to circumvent it.''~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilter}.
Further, they suggest caution in filter naming and giving just simple description of the overall disruptive behaviour rather than naming specificuser that is causing the disruptions.
Further, they suggest caution in filter naming and giving just simple description of the overall disruptive behaviour rather than naming specificuser that is causing the disruptions.
(The later is not always complied with, there are indeed filters named after the accounts causing a disruption.)
Only edit filter editors (who have the \emph{abusefilter-modify} permission) and editors with the \emph{abusefilter-view-private} permission can view hidden filters.
