Possible LTA or sockmaster/sockpuppets? Do not know where to maybe even file...
Yeah...it's connected to the Sneed vandalism. The common thread in this latest spurt is referring to editors who revert their trolling/meme'ing or who post warnings on their user talk as "jannies", usually in the edit summaries. So far, I think at least the following IPs have this in common and all somewhat recently (some of the summaries have been removed from view):
- 181.46.150.118 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/181.46.150.118, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=181.46.150.118
- 197.251.184.192 - Acra, Ghana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/197.251.184.192, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=197.251.184.192
- 156.208.49.115 - Cairo, Egypt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/156.208.49.115, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=156.208.49.115
Anyway, I wanted to see what you think. Seems awfully odd that no IPs from North America or Europe or Australia/New Zealand or Russia or China or India or Central America etc. would be indulging in this meme'ing vandalism...I mean, after all...aren't The Simpsons a worldwide phenomenon? Hmmmm. Shearonink (talk) 23:05, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Annnnnnnnnd another one to add to the mix:
- 181.92.48.240 - Argentina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/181.92.48.240, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=181.92.48.240 - used term "janny"
Shearonink (talk) 00:16, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- (ec) @Shearonink: No I don't know who this is, but it seems like one person using proxies. They seem to be feeding (ha!) off our efforts to stop them, so best not make a LTA or SPI page, in my opinion. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:19, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- Ah ok...yeah, just something to keep an eye on then. Shearonink (talk) 01:21, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
*sigh*
so you decided to take it private? I confess I did like keeping an eye on it since I'm the one who requested it... oh well. Shearonink (talk) 19:51, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Shearonink: Yeah, too many proxies being used. This is an LTA. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:56, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- Agreed. Persistent little bugger... Glad you're on the case. Shearonink (talk) 19:10, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- Agree with your close of that thread. Still wish I could have access to the filter, just to see what's going on behind the scenes... Thanks for all you have done and are continuing to do with this situation.Shearonink (talk) 17:31, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Agreed. Persistent little bugger... Glad you're on the case. Shearonink (talk) 19:10, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar | |
For creating User:Suffusion of Yellow/Mobile communication bugs and trying to get the WMF to listen to these issues. This is quite frustrating so I very much appreciate your work on this! Elli (talk | contribs) 01:50, 12 April 2021 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Elli. I'm pleased see yourself and others involved in this, too. It's very easy to dismiss a problem if it's just one person nagging you about it. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:24, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- Curious - what would you think about moving User:Suffusion of Yellow/Mobile communication bugs to project-space? I feel like it might be better to have it there. Elli (talk | contribs) 19:14, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Elli: Yep, done. Perhaps people will fill in the "unknown" bits now. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:59, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Curious - what would you think about moving User:Suffusion of Yellow/Mobile communication bugs to project-space? I feel like it might be better to have it there. Elli (talk | contribs) 19:14, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Screenshots for THEYCANTHEARYOU
I've managed to get screenshots on both Android and iOS of the absolutely terrible block notices you get on the apps. Padgriffin (talk) 14:28, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Padgriffin: Thanks! You might want to attach those to phab:T276147 and phab:T275118 respectively. Or I can do that, if you prefer. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:33, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- You may do it, I’m not familiar with Phab, unfortunately. Padgriffin (talk) 12:15, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Idea
It's tedious, but using user_name
and a disallow filter with a long page title, presumably we can at least get in touch with individual iOS users (though Android ones would remain elusive)? Perhaps with a message on how one can access their talk page using the app? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:06, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: Sure, but since I don't have an iOS device handy, you might want to use a test filter and try that on yourself, first. There's probably a limit on the length of the message. You won't need admin rights, since you don't actually need to create the page. Just select "Other message" from the dropdown and type your message right into the edit filter interface. The preview will show up as "undefined" but it will allow you to save. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:24, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
- Well, this approach might actually work. See Filter 1139 and [1]. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: That looks better than I expected. Worth trying the next time an iOS user is dragged to ANI. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
- Well, this approach might actually work. See Filter 1139 and [1]. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
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This is to show appreciation for aiding me to solve my problem. Celestina007 (talk) 19:21, 17 April 2021 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Celestina007! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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Edit filter problem
Do you mind checking this out? It might need a change, but I'm not sure as I can't see private filters. Thanks. NonsensicalSystem(error?)(.log) 10:59, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21
4.15.120.139
I've blocked them for three months. I had been distracted in having to reject the vandalism made as a pending change at Notability, so I forgot to check the filter, and since none of the previous blocking admins could have been bothered to leave a block notice on the talk page I had no idea there had been previous blocks on the account. That won't be an issue for a while. Daniel Case (talk) 21:49, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Daniel Case: Thanks. FWIW they'll likely be back on another IP, but I think this LTA (see the notes in 1131 (hist · log) for the name of the master, prefer to WP:DENY here) has a limited number of IPs, so three months seems good. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:55, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- So all he does is add that same seven (well, eight)-character string? At least that's easy to remember without picking up the filter. Daniel Case (talk) 00:57, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- He makes two types of edits. The first all look something like Special:AbuseLog/30143108; they will (hopefully) be blocked by the filter and will only appear in the log. The others are like Special:AbuseLog/29355357. The filter doesn't disallow those; it doesn't (yet) seem worth dealing with the false positives and it's not quite as disruptive to the reader. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- So all he does is add that same seven (well, eight)-character string? At least that's easy to remember without picking up the filter. Daniel Case (talk) 00:57, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for that catch
Seddon talk 21:27, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Seddon: Sure, no problem. FYI, the "diff" at the top of filter log entries shows the text before the pre-save transform. That is, you'll see exactly what was in the edit form. So, signatures will look like "~~~~" unless they were copy-pasted. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:51, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Your email
Thank you, useful to know! – I didn't, was evaluating the contribs as those of a new editor. Moneytrees blocked him, was way ahead of me. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:05, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
A suggestion for an edit filter you made
Hey there, I noticed you created an edit filter to disallow Among Us memes. I had a small suggestion-- I think it would be a good idea to add in the phrase "baka" to the filter. I do a lot of countervandalism and I see many Among Us vandals use this term. Thanks for hearing me out, Helen(💬📖) 21:33, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- @HelenDegenerate: Sorry for the long delay. Testing at 1014 (hist · log). Over 1000 uses of "baka" in mainspace, so this will need to be a fairly common vandal word to justify disallowing it. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:08, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- @HelenDegenerate: Turns out, nearly every case was either a false positive, or was already disallowed by another filter. Thanks for the suggestion though. (And no, it doesn't usually take a month to test a simple filter like this; I just haven't been all that active lately...) Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:28, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU
Could I WP:CANVASS you, if you see fit, to comment at meta:Talk:Community Tech/Warn when linking to disambiguation pages#Revision tag for edits that add dablinks; along the lines that rearranging deckchairs is all very well, but there might perhaps be other issues which deserve more immediate attention? We've had tools which do what that phabricator request proposes for something like a decade (User:DPL bot). Narky Blert (talk) 21:47, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
A filter
- Filter 2
Was crafted for a specific LTA but surprisingly effective at picking up other LTAs, general vandalism and other garbage. There are technically some 'FPs' but they're all edits bad enough that they should be reverted, AFAICS. Thoughts on setting it to disallow? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
- It does struggle sometimes with a specific type of edit though (see filter notes), in case you have ideas on how to get around that? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: I see too many FPs to disallow. Checking the 50 most recent edits with saved changes, I found Special:AbuseLog/30750650, Special:AbuseLog/30750394, Special:AbuseLog/30749598, Special:AbuseLog/30747895, Special:AbuseLog/30747824, Special:AbuseLog/30745366, Special:AbuseLog/30743362, Special:AbuseLog/30740770, and Special:AbuseLog/30737111. I've tried to do this exact thing before, and could never get the FPs low enough, either. Does this need to be private, though? I would suspect that the people who understand that regex aren't the ones doing this kind of vandalism. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:35, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
- The first three are the issue I was referring to, couldn't figure out how to exclude them without also excluding problems in infoboxes.
- Re private, my thinking was perhaps not if it will only log in future, but if some variant of it is disallowed then maybe. Although most the bad hits are runaway vandalism, some are LTAs, and it's easily bypassable if the strategy used to catch them is described clearly (in title or in the regex). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
- @ProcrastinatingReader: I see too many FPs to disallow. Checking the 50 most recent edits with saved changes, I found Special:AbuseLog/30750650, Special:AbuseLog/30750394, Special:AbuseLog/30749598, Special:AbuseLog/30747895, Special:AbuseLog/30747824, Special:AbuseLog/30745366, Special:AbuseLog/30743362, Special:AbuseLog/30740770, and Special:AbuseLog/30737111. I've tried to do this exact thing before, and could never get the FPs low enough, either. Does this need to be private, though? I would suspect that the people who understand that regex aren't the ones doing this kind of vandalism. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:35, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
IN response to the email
(I'm only telling you this on your talk page because my email contains my real name which I would prefer remain private) Thanks for letting me know! Didn't realize it was something you're not supposed to tell people on pages that anyone can see. I had simply asked because I saw it on AIV and was curious as to what they were trying to do (not going into specific because of what you said in the email) and saw that it didn't match what they said the filter did. So I had simply just asked, curious as to how the filter worked and why it caught something that was very clearly not what the filter though it was. I'll keep that in mind in the future. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 21:25, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- Also I figure really the only thing that would be fine being repeated to others is that (like most things on Wikipedia) it's not perfect and is still being improved. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 21:27, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Blaze The Wolf: In case it wasn't clear from my email, you didn't do anything wrong here. "Someone" should just have been a little more careful when replying, and I didn't want you to mistakenly repeat the information thinking it was public. (And do get around to creating a Wikipedia-specific email address.) Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- Yep I understand. Also I would create a Wikipedia-specific email address however I don't need to use the email function of Wikipedia all that often so I don't really have a reason to do so as of yet. Also I definitely would not have repeated the information because (even though I didn't know it was a private filter) I saw no benefit in doing so other than it still being improved, which is good to know that there are actual people who work on the edit filter. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 22:01, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Blaze The Wolf: In case it wasn't clear from my email, you didn't do anything wrong here. "Someone" should just have been a little more careful when replying, and I didn't want you to mistakenly repeat the information thinking it was public. (And do get around to creating a Wikipedia-specific email address.) Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
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