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BRFA activity by month
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Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.
Overall
Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).
TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebroxnoted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthonypointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"
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Hey DatGuy. Would it possible to add additional notes (beyond the filter title) when DatBot makes an "immediate" report to AIV/TB2? That is, could we put stuff like this in User:DatBot/filters:
note 42 = '''This filter causes a large number of false positives; use extreme caution before blocking.'''
note 123 = Contact [[User:Alice]] for questions.
note 456 = [[User:Bob| ]]
Then DatBot would say:
* {{IPvandal|8.8.8.8}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/42|filter 42]] (LTA 42) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|wpSearchUser=8.8.8.8}} details]). '''This filter causes a large number of false positives; use extreme caution before blocking.''' [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 18:10, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Is there a way to override the default full protection of user JSON? AFAIK changing the content model of that page would prevent non-admins EFMs, including me (and you, unless you log in to the bot account), from editing the page. So it will need to be outside your userspace, e.g. at Template:DatBot filters or Wikipedia:DatBot filters, and then EC-protected manually. Do you have a preferred location? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:44, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, worked the second time. Didn't realize I needed to wait five minutes after updating the template. I've copied everything from the old page, but I'm leaving the report page as your sandbox for a bit. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 07:13, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Seems to be working; thanks again! I switched back to AIV. One more question: the doc page says If a user hits any combination of filters 'vandalism' a total of ten times within five minutes, he's reported to AIV. but the old behavior was five times in five minutes, and DatBot is still saying Tripped 5 abuse filters in the last 5 minutes. Which is correct? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:59, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
@Suffusion of Yellow: it was indeed previously set to five times in five minutes, but that led to the obvious issue that any specific filter hit five times in five minutes will be skipped because the user is already reported for five global hits. I've added a 'global' section to the filters page that can also be updated. There's also a title tracker which reports if five filters have been tripped in the last five minutes on a page (rather than by a user) on the #wikipedia-en-abuse-logconnect channel. Dat GuyTalkContribs20:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Yes, I made the duplicate hit per edit check be ignored for vandalism filters. Zubinia for example tripped both band vandalism and filter 1160 simultaneously. Dat GuyTalkContribs14:26, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
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