I'm having crazy problems with the AbuseFilter extension, and I can't get any
filters to do anything at all. No matter what kind of actions I try to filter out, they
get through without the Abusefilter doing anything to stop them, it doesn't even log
the events in the abuse log. Even running it in test mode and comparing all the old edits,
nothing matches the filter. For example, the "shouting" filter which is intended
to catch anyone typing in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS, completely ignores anyone who has been
doing it.
It's blind.
The filters I've been trying are the ones wikipedia itself uses, so they should
definitely work. For some reason it just doesn't seem to be paying attention to any of
the edits though.
I have two other extensions installed, AntiSpoof and "bad behaviour"...
Apparently AntiSpoof is required before you can install AbuseFilter, so I doubt there
could be any conflict there. Bad behaviour is working effectively, so effectively that it
wouldn't allow me to install AbuseFilter to begin with because it seemed to think the
installer was a bot or something? So I had to temporarily disable it in order to get
AbuseFilter installed. Bad behaviour is still currently disabled so I don't think
there could be any conflict there either.
I'm on mediawiki 1.16, the latest one. My extensions are all also the versions which
go with 1.16. The server is Apache/Linux. PHP 5.2.42 and MySQL 5.0.85.
Has anyone heard of this happening before, or got even the slightest clue what the problem
could be? Even the faintest idea or the wildest guess would be helpful, to give me
something to look into. I've got nothing.
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