ABUSE filter management

17-letter anonymous talk edits

17-letter anonymous talk edits

Enabled

Enabled

Spambots following this pattern of test edits either create a new talk page or replace an entire section of a talk page with an over-generic message of praise for the associated article, with one misspelled word whose internal letters have been scrambled. If it's a new talk page, the section title is a single "word" with 11 or more random letters of both cases. We currently detect only the new talk page, and we detect it by the section title.

Spambots following this pattern of test edits either create a new talk page or replace an entire section of a talk page with an over-generic message of praise for the associated article, with one misspelled word whose internal letters have been scrambled. If it's a new talk page, the section title is a single "word" with 11 or more random letters of both cases. We currently detect only the new talk page, and we detect it by the section title.

2011-08-01: Made the heuristic broader because it wasn't catching all edits that fit this pattern.

2011-08-01: Made the heuristic broader because it wasn't catching all edits that fit this pattern.

2011-08-09: moved OR operator into the regex to possibly save a few conditions

2011-08-09: moved OR operator into the regex to possibly save a few conditions

!user_editcount

!user_editcount

& (summary rlike "(?:[zZ]\w+[zZ]|[A-Z]{2,}[a-z]{2,}[A-Z]{2,}|[a-z]{2,}[A-Z]{2,}[a-z]{2,}|[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z])")

& (summary rlike "(?:[zZ]\w+[zZ]|[A-Z]{2,}[a-z]{2,}[A-Z]{2,}|[a-z]{2,}[A-Z]{2,}[a-z]{2,}|[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z])")

Disallow

Disallow

Warn: abusefilter-warning

Warn: abusefilter-warning