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Remove adminship from old WMF staff accounts
Purpose removing adminship from:

These users are no longer working for WMF and thus their office accounts are locked. So no reason for keeping their adminship. They can still use their adminship of their personal accounts e.g. .--GZWDer (talk) 11:13, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi. It looks like Jalexander-WMF took care of this. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ by

There are a couple more which are marked as WMF accounts on the respective user page, have not edited for over two years and were flagged without discussion due to staff status. Would be useful to unflag. Nemo 23:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Broken Abuse Filter
Hi guys,

can you please have a look at the AbuseFilter and fix the wrong blocks, which it is making? E.g. see the block of my IP 88.130... from today (December 2nd), 13:30 o'clock.

I was answering a support request on the Support Desk and in the answer I wanted to include a link to an older Support Topic. The topic name is one of these random numbers. As soon as I try to point to a topic, it incorrectly blocks me, telling me, I would be a spam bot doing a mass attack.

It would be great, if this broken spam filter could be fixed, so that it at least properly allows mediawiki.org links again.

Cheers!

Jörg --88.130.119.246 22:54, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Internal links inside mediawiki.org also are not working correctly. This misconfiguration currently prevents me from helping users at the Support Desk. --88.130.73.233 15:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello! Thanks for mentioning the problem here, and sorry for any inconvenience :( I changed the filter to not block users anymore and the filter rules should be more specific when identifying the real spam and let you post links :) Please give me some feedback, if you still have problems :) Best! --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 16:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Florian,
 * it is better now, but the problem is not yet solved.
 * Links to Flow topics and internal links with twice two square brackets seem to be working correctly now.
 * What is not working yet, are external links to mediawiki.org. E.g. a link to api.php or a link to the history function with an old revision or so. --88.130.73.233 19:00, 4 December 2015 (UTC)