diff --git a/notes b/notes index 99603a385361a88a965457caaa867990b16544e6..89c47566f79afc537892a068b7c639e0cdf9d8ec 100644 --- a/notes +++ b/notes @@ -1890,3 +1890,15 @@ In the vast majority of cases, Deny recognition and Revert, block, ignore are mo The user has been abusing Wikipedia over a long duration of time. The user account has a history of repeated egregious disruption, and despite indefinite block or ban, continues vandalism and/or abuse beyond the point of any usual blocked user. There is a significant chance that the information will be of value against future repetition." + + +============================================================================ +Investigating pick in filter hits beginnings of 2016 + +Looking at january 2016: + +till now it comes to attention that a lot of accounts named something resembling <FirstnameLastname4RandomLetters> were trying to create an account (while logged in?) (or maybe it was just that the creation of these particular accounts itself was denied); this triggers filter 527 ("T34234: log/throttle possible sleeper account creations +") +There are in the meantime over 5 pages of them, it is definitely happening automatically + +TODO: download data; write script to identify actions that triggered the filters (accountcreations? edits?) and what pages were edited