Extension:AbuseFilterBypass

The AbuseFilterBypass extension allows privileged users to skip all AbuseFilters defined and configured in the  extension.

It is primarily intended for 1>Special:MyLanguage/wiki farm|wiki farms like  or , where there is a need to have one user group—  for these sites—that is global (shared between all wikis on the farm) and more trusted than individual local wikis' admins.

For a regular single-wiki installation, there is probably no need to install this extension and people who can edit abuse filters can easily edit or disable harmful filters that would unintentionally affect the wiki's admins.

The AbuseFilterBypass extension requires the   hook, which was added to the AbuseFilter</> extension in commit <tvar|4>7edf12dbc6d9421d668619acd4abfe68af081f41</>, committed on 13 August 2019 (see <tvar|5>phab:T229252</>).

The extension was originally written by Nelson Monterroso for <tvar|1></>, Inc. and amended in July 2019 by <tvar|2>Jack Phoenix</> for <tvar|3></>.

User rights
The extension adds one new user right, <tvar|1> </>, which by default is granted to the <tvar|2> </> user group.

(By default, there is no <tvar|1> </> user group in MediaWiki, so if such a group doesn't exist, this extension effectively creates it by giving it the <tvar|2> </> user right.)