I think how to notify the interested parties of archiving failures is a general issue, not just for failures related to abuse filters. I created a Phabricator task for that a while ago. [2]
Sorry, I forgot the link: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124407 (and there was no [1].)
Best, Yusuke
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Yusuke Matsubara whym@whym.org wrote:
Hi,
I believe in this case we should somehow implement 'press Save again' in the bot. I don't know if the MediaWiki API allows this, but if not, I think it should be added (to the AbuseFilter extension?).
If the edit was 'blocked' by an abuse filter, things would be more complicated because we would definitely need an admin to look at the case (and thus need for notification).
A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been archived for a long time before we noticed it. It just silently failed, with logging being the only action.
I think how to notify the interested parties of archiving failures is a general issue, not just for failures related to abuse filters. I created a Phabricator task for that a while ago. [2]
Best, Yusuke
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been archived for a long time before we noticed it. Investigation showed that the bot had hit a warning-type abuse filter upon copying the text to archive and saving. In this case the abuse filter displays a warning and lets the user press Save again if he/she wants to do it anyway. Of course, the archivebot
did not save the page for the second time (could it?) did not pass the problematic section and archive the remainder did not let the owner know about the problem.
It just silently failed, with logging being the only action.
So what would the desired behaviour be in a similar case? Please keep in mind that archivebot is tyoically run with cron or other timing, not in interactive mode.
To see the log click on https://tools.wmflabs.org/ato/log/archive.txt and ctrl f for
ERROR: editpage: abusefilter-warning
-- Bináris
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