Extension talk:AbuseFilter/Rules format/Archive 1

variables overview
is there an overview of those variables like MOVED_TO_TEXT, ADDED_LINES, SUMMARY, USER_GROUPS etc.? -- seth 17:55, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Note regarding formatting conditions
I don't know if this will help anyone, but I ran into a problem formatting some conditions. I wanted to select all non-minor edits and discovered that, while '= "1"' is honored, '="0"' is not when it comes to asserting actions on live edits, even though testing the filter using that syntax works fine. Therefore, the safest syntax to use is '= true' and '= false'. Again, probably just my duncery, but perhaps it will help someone else. Cheers. Thorncrag 18:47, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Another one I discovered, if you want to apply to file uploads, or to exclude from uploads use something like:  .  Thorncrag 19:57, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Both handy - thanks Thorncrag. --Chriswaterguy 11:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Concatenation
How can I concatenate strings? --Octahedron80 05:32, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You can just use a . So "some text" == "foo bar" is the same as "some text" == "foo" + " bar". 207.71.53.42 21:51, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

No Unicode support
Unicode support is required because the following example in French do not work properly : "testé" regex "\btest\b" Result: True

There is no workaround as the PCRE syntax is not fully supported like the (*UCP) option.

--DavidL (talk) 22:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * A quick glance at AbuseFilter's code shows that much of it relies on the built-in POSIX regex, though a developer may have a different opinion.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:03, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

blocked IP
is it possible to add variable that can show the user's IP is blocked or not.

it is helpful for cases that open proxy is blocked but only for ip editing not users editing.

in many cases users because of some limitations in their country (some pages are filtered by isp ,...) they use open proxy for editing in specific articles.

I want to filter which users are new and they use this Block IPs.Reza1615 (talk) 21:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

article_articleid documentation wrong?
I'm working on a filter that should only apply to the edit that creates a page. The docs list a variable "article_articleid — this is 0 for new pages" but the filter was not trapping the edits that created pages. Turns out the variable value was not 0, but rather some large int value. Digging deeper, that is consistent with the variable's description as "PageID" being a unique token tied to the page (independent of whether it has exited before or not). What would be 0 is probably some token for the previous rev_id, but I don't see an entry for that in the AF docs. For now, old_pagesize works pretty well for my case (though it also catches the first edit after a manual blanking, rather than only "page creation"). DMacks (talk) 19:01, 25 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Testing further, sometimes article_articleid is 0 for page-creation, but not always. For example, is 36774991 but  is 0. WTF?? DMacks (talk) 19:08, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

moved_from_recent_contributors
When examining changes triggered on a page move from the abuse log, there's a variable named  that I want to use, but when use that variable inside the conditions then it says there's a syntax error and that the   variable is not recognized, so it's not really usable. Maybe it can be used but the validator does not recognize it. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 21:54, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Please add description of variable values
In particular I want to know whether "added_lines" and "removed_lines" refer to the number of lines or whether they contain the actual line text, but there are several other ambiguous items. For example, what units do the "size" variables use (Characters? Bytes? Lines? Something else?), what is the user_name field if the user is not logged in, and more. Please put SOMETHING in the value field for each variable, at least describing the data type. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.175.225.22 (talk • contribs) 15:44, 15 March 2013
 * I agree. In many cases one has to use "try and error" before an abuse filter works. -- Juetho (talk) 08:50, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * +1. And from bug 50107 a better guess would be that "added_lines" and "removed_lines" are actually arrays! Helder 16:25, 5 July 2013 (UTC)