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\section{Impact on editors}
What happens when an editor triggers an edit filter?
(Interesting side note: editing via TOR is disallowed: "Your IP has been recognised as a TOR exit node. We disallow this to prevent abuse" or similar, check again for wording. Compare: "Users of the Tor anonymity network will show the IP address of a Tor "exit node". Lists of known Tor exit nodes are available from the Tor Project's Tor Bulk Exit List exporting tool." \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism})
What happens when an editor triggers an edit filter? Do they notice this at all?
As described in the previous section, a variety of different actions may occur when a filter gets tripped.
These include: disallow, warn, tag, throttle, log..
For the more severe ones, the editor is notified that they hit a filter:
a warning message is displayed if the filter action was set to disallow/warn.
These warnings describe the problem that occurred and present the editor with possible actions:
complain on the FalsePositives page (link!) in case of a disallow,
or, complain on the FalsePositives page and publish the change anyway in case of a warning.
On the other hand, when the filter action is set to "tag" or "log" only, the editor doesn't really notice they tripped a filter unless they are looking more closely.
Tagged edits are marked as such in the page's revision history (see screenshot)
and all edits that trigger an edit filter are listed in the AbuseLog (link) (see screenshot).
If the filter is set to disallow, a specific template is shown to the editor: "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, so it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error. Disruptive editing may result in a block from editing."
"report this error" links to the FalsePositives page: \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives}
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So far, I haven't managed to trigger a filter with a different action.
\subsection{TOR}
(Interesting side note: editing via TOR is disallowed: "Your IP has been recognised as a TOR exit node. We disallow this to prevent abuse" or similar, check again for wording. Compare: "Users of the Tor anonymity network will show the IP address of a Tor "exit node". Lists of known Tor exit nodes are available from the Tor Project's Tor Bulk Exit List exporting tool." \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism})
\section{Edit filters on the English Wikipedia: State of the art}
