"I'm Andrew Garrett. I started volunteering in 2005, and I worked at the Wikimedia Foundation from 2009 until I left in 2015 because 7 years is a long time. This is my personal account, so while I'll make mistakes, I intend for actions taken with this account to be in my personal capacity only. My work account was Andrew Garrett."
Edit_filter page first version, created 23.06.2008, where User:Werdna announced the upcoming MediaWiki Extention he was working on.
"I've been developing an extension which allows privileged users to add very specific restrictions on actions going through on the wiki.
This gives us the opportunity to prevent damage from vandals with very specific modi operandi."
"I submit to the community that this gives us an extraordinary opportunity to disallow some of the worst and most annoying types of vandalism which occur on Wikipedia, and to refocus our efforts into doing other, more productive things than cleaning up after page-move vandalism."
There's a list of things that the filters can filter on
"It is noteworthy here that no rights, even to view information, are granted to all users. This is deliberate. Information about the filters active on Wikipedia would be sensitive information, and, if it were to be publically available, release to those who wish to circumvent them would be inevitable. I currently propose that the right to view filters be almost as well-protected as the right to modify them."
"Of course, this issue of the closed nature of the extension is the extension's main problem, and the one which I foresee the most objections on. "
