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Hi! I justtripped filter 1045 at a draft I'm almost done rescuing. I've been adding links to sources where the publication's official archives are hosted on Google drive (seeWikipedia talk:Citing sources § Linking google drive for my question to the community on how best to do this).
I'm not concerned that I tripped the filter (it's not a false positive: just an edge case). My concern is that I linked google drive documents in the draftthreetimespreviously, and none of those edits tripped the filter (false negatives). Not sure what the difference is between the triggering edit and the non-triggering edits, but it seems maybe this filter isn't activating as often as intended.Folly Mox (talk)15:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My attempt (see 19:33, 17 October 2024 in myfilter log) to ask for a page protection at RfPP failed. It turned out there was a (private) edit filter preventing it. Fair enough. But the failure is ungraceful.
I used the 'click this button to request protection' button that opens a (JavaScript-powered?) page to pre-fill the report. But the edit filter prevented it from being saved… silently. I was left with a page that just said "saving…" forever.
Of course, I assumed the error was my browser, so did it again. Same result. Then I tried to added it manually. Only then did the edit filter hit get reported to me.
As I say, this is an ungraceful fail, with no fallback, to the point of being actively unhelpful. Can anything be done?80.42.207.226 (talk)19:49, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone think we should lower the time interval and number of unarchived sections showing for the archiving period onWikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard? Currently,Lowercase sigmabot III archives sections older than 10 days, and the source that appears on that page is as follows.
{{User:MiszaBot/config|archiveheader={{aan}}|maxarchivesize= 200K|counter= 14|algo= old(10d)|archive= Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard/Archive %(counter)d}}
I was thinking we could lower the interval to seven or fewer days and have no discussions with comments older than seven days appear, as follows.
{{User:MiszaBot/config|archiveheader={{aan}}|maxarchivesize= 200K|counter= 14|algo= old(7d)<!--Use lower number if we want a shorter window-->|archive= Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard/Archive %(counter)d|minthreadstoarchive= 1|minthreadsleft= 0}}
Z. Patterson (talk)17:17, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I need your help with making filters compatible with temporary accounts. There are just over 20 of them needing an update/verification. InT369611, you will find an instruction and the lists of filters. Because some are/may be private, only users with NDA access on Phab and subscribers can view the lists. If you'd like to help me, let me know and I will add you to the subscriber list. Thanks!SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk)14:05, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The redirectEdit filter has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 22 § Edit filter until a consensus is reached.Perfect4th (talk)19:16, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to propose that the following be added to the edit filter.
If someone is working in Chrome and clicks on a pdf, what ends up in the URL box starts with chrome-extension:// and then a long edit string. So instead of
what is in the URL box is
I'm currently using AWB to clear these up and there have been a couple of oddities (which may be worse cut and paste) but most fit the above where chrome-extension.*/http can be replaced with http to give the valid url. Please let me know if this should be proposed elsewhere.Naraht (talk)14:54, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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