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⚓ T332521 Set 'blockautopromote', 'block' and 'rangeblock' global AbuseFilter actions as locally disabled
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Set 'blockautopromote', 'block' and 'rangeblock' global AbuseFilter actions as locally disabled
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Description

Prevent global filters from applying:

  • blockautopromote
  • block
  • rangeblock (?)

actions locally, per Requests for comment/Global AbuseFilter (2014 consensus), again raised at Requests for comment/Make global abuse filters opt-out.

No global filters currently apply the above actions.


'wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions' => [
	'default' => [
		'blockautopromote' => true,
		'block' => true,
		'rangeblock' => true,
	],
],

Event Timeline

Change 900828 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samtar; author: Samtar):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/900828

Change 901219 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samtar; author: Samtar):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings-labs: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/901219

Change 901219 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings-labs: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/901219

Change 901248 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samtar; author: Samtar):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings-labs: Add `Phonos` channel to `debug`

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/901248

Change 900828 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] InitialiseSettings: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/900828

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-03-21T15:17:12Z] <samtar@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:900828|InitialiseSettings: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions (T332521)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-03-21T15:19:09Z] <samtar@deploy2002> samtar: Backport for [[gerrit:900828|InitialiseSettings: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions (T332521)]] synced to the testservers: mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2001.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug2002.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1001.eqiad.wmnet

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-03-21T15:26:24Z] <samtar@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:900828|InitialiseSettings: Set wgAbuseFilterLocallyDisabledGlobalActions (T332521)]] (duration: 09m 11s)

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@TheresNoTime I'm wondering, is there a reason not to add those actions into extension.json as default value? Allowing global blocking filters sounds risky in general. Just a suggestion to consider :).