I don't think global filters should be enabled unless they can be
overridden locally. Only exception would be if all language specific
tests can be disabled or being verified to not be in use for the
specific filter.
John
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:03 AM, hoo <hoo(a)online.de> wrote:
Here's a copy of a mail I just sent to stewards-l
about the trial
deployment of global AbuseFilters:
Hello,
after a long time we're finally confident that the AbuseFilter extension
is in a state in which it can be used for global filters. Therefore I'm
happy to announce that from now on global AbuseFilters can be used on
(some) Wikimedia Wikis.
The filters can be created and edited by Stewards using the normal
AbuseFilter interface on meta
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter ) and basically
work like local filters (you only have to set the "Global filter" flag).
Although global AbuseFilters are already in use on Wikimedia Labs for
quite some time we would like you to start using them slowly, preferable
with logging-only filters to prevent unforeseeable damage.
Global filters are yet enabled on:
metawiki, testwiki, test2wiki, mediawikiwiki
(They will only filter changes on these wikis... Of course this trial
will later be extended to further Wikis and it's planned to cover all
Wikis at some point)
Please notice that it's not yet possible to create custom warning
message for global filters
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45164 ) and that global
filters can't yet be enabled/ disabled for certain wikis only
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41172 ).
Cheers,
Marius Hoch (Hoo man)
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