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Commit 73e7bd31 authored by Lyudmila Vaseva's avatar Lyudmila Vaseva
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Add urgent situations subsection

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//interessanterweise is 2factor-auth auch nur für diese speziellen Benutzer*innen erlaubt; sonst kann man die Seite nicht ansehen
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\subsection{Urgent situations}
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\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter}
"Except in urgent situations, new edit filters should generally be tested without any actions specified (simply enabled) until a good number of edits have been logged and checked before being implemented in "warn" or "disallow" modes. If the filter is receiving more than a very small percentage of false positives it should usually not be placed in 'disallow' mode."
Exemptions for "urgent situation" -- what/how are these defined?
Discussions may happen postfactum here and filter may be applied before having been thoroughly tested; in this case the corresponding editor is responsible for checking the logs regularly and making sure the filter acts as desired
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\subsection{Alternatives}
%TODO: where should this go?
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For example, there is the page protection mechanism that addresses problems on a single page.
Also, title and spam blacklists exist and these might be the way to handle problems with page titles or link spam~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilter}.
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\section{Technical layer}
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