From c5bc41a967545e6591048a5a20b59c5136e59292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:32:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Write out urgent situations
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\subsection{Urgent situations}
-\begin{comment}
-\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."
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-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
-\end{comment}
+There are several provisions for urgent situations (which I think should be scrutinised extra carefully since ``urgent situations'' have historically always been an excuse for cuts in civil liberties).
+For instance, generally, every new filter should be tested extensively in logging mode only (without any further actions) until a sufficient number of edits has demonstrated that it does indeed filter what it was intended to and there aren't too many false positives.
+Only then the filter should have ``warn'' or ``disallow'' actions enabled~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilter}.
+In ``urgent situations'' however (how are these defined? who determines they are urgent?), discussions about a filter may happen after it was already implemented and set to warn/disallow edits whithout thorough testing.
+Here, the filter editor responsible should monitor the filter and the logs in order to make sure the filter does what it was supposed to~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilter}.
\subsection{Alternatives}
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