[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 14:55:10 UTC 2011


Guillaume Paumier, 24/08/2011 16:36:
> The AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki, which helps prevent vandalism
> on wikis, will be globally enabled on all Wikimedia projects later
> today.
>
> More information is available at
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/24/filter-preventing-abusive-edits-all-wikis/

I know I can look at noc.wikimedia.org, but could you please add some 
info about the default configuration so that at least sysops know what 
to expect. Or is it supposed to be used only by [global sysops and] 
stewards (as it happened on some small wikis recently)?
Thank you,
	Nemo



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