I believe that the abuse filter should be changed to allow the bot to
edit.
The bot doesn't know whether this is a warning, and or disallow action,
nor to know the consequences of hitting the filter for a second time,
and expecting a bot to navigate a false positive on a wiki is not
reasonable.
-- billinghurst
------ Original Message ------
From: "Yusuke Matsubara" <whym(a)whym.org>
To: "Pywikibot discussion list" <pywikibot(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: 3/06/2018 9:45:39 PM
Subject: Re: [pywikibot] Archivebot fails on abuse filter
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A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been
archived for a long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, BinĂ¡ris <wikiposta(a)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A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been
archived for a long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
--
BinĂ¡ris
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