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Update regarding the temporary account option in GlobalPreferences and protected filters

Just a heads up regarding the Temporary account IP reveal option on Special:GlobalPreferences (for GAFHs and AFMs, or admins on some wikis): if you can view private and protected filters on a wiki (e.g. on Meta-Wiki or Test Wikipedia), and when the temporary accounts option is disabled in your global preferences, you may not view a protected filter nor its hit log until you enable that option.

Regarding the latter (and for example, on Meta-Wiki), this is what you will see when the temporary account option is disabled and you attempt to view a protected filter:

You may not view details of this filter, because it uses protected variables and is hidden from public view.

The same thing applies when attempting to view a protected filter's hit log:

One or more of the filter IDs you specified are protected. Because you are not allowed to view details of protected filters, these filters have not been searched for.

Note that this does not apply to the English Wikipedia or some other wikis that still have the AbuseFilter option in local preferences. Codename Noreste (talk) 01:49, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Does this change affect local EFHs and EFMs as well? – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 02:31, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Because temporary accounts are not yet enabled here, and because the AbuseFilter tick option is still available on the local preferences, the answer is probably no. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:50, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

The easiest fix here I think would be to improve the error message. Filed phab:T391549. On Phab, please feel free to click "Edit Task" and fix if I misunderstood something. –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:55, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I haven't looked deeply into the issue, but that phab ticket seems to be requesting a change to MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-denied-protected-vars. We can do that here. You can usually find these system messages at [1] (or thereabouts). -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 05:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I think it more likely needs a new message specific for AFH/Ms, EFH/Ms and sysops (any group that has abusefilter-access-protected-vars). Nobody (talk) 06:26, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Agreed. Looks like MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-denied-protected-vars covers two situations. Modifying it to apply to situation 2 would make it wrong for situation 1, and vice versa. –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:04, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Another heads up: per phab:T380920, the AbuseFilter tick option has been merged with the global temporary accounts IP reveal option, and T391549 has been closed as a duplicate of phab:T389640. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Exclude Wikipedia:Files for upload from 1197

• 1197 (hist · log)

Exclamation marks come preloaded with a template, so please fully exclude Wikipedia:Files for upload, thanks. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:46, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

I would just add page_id != 9176046 to the filter. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 13:32, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done. I used !equals_to_any(page_id, 9176046, 26204397). Since I was in there, I also replaced the unnecessary rlike with contains and reordered things a bit. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:16, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

FilterDiff user script

I've been annoyed for a while by the endless scrolling through unmodified lines when reviewing changes to filters, especially for filters with long notes or many conditions. To improve the readability of edit filter diffs, I wrote User:Daniel Quinlan/Scripts/FilterDiff. The script hides unmodified lines that are far from changes, adds line numbers, and provides a toggle to view the full diff when needed.

Note that the script is currently in beta, so any feedback is appreciated. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 00:00, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for this script. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 22:30, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

¡Muchas gracias! I think both this script and FilterBlame can work globally, and if it happens to the latter script, I can provide a Spanish translation for that. Codename Noreste (talk · contribs) 22:46, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

FilterBlame user script

Trying to figure out when a certain condition was added to a filter so you can read the diff, improve your log analysis, or know who to talk to about an issue? User:Daniel Quinlan/Scripts/FilterBlame solves this problem. You can search using a substring or a regular expression, use binary or linear search, and search for insertions or removals.

Note that despite the name, "blame" is just the traditional term for this kind of functionality. It's about searching the history, not pointing fingers. As with the previous script, it's in beta. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 00:49, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for both of these. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 17:56, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Idea: Allow EFHs to enable 2FA

EFH is a user-group with access to fairly sensitive data, so in my opinion, it makes sense for EFHs to have the ability to enable 2FA (which would require the oathauth-enable right) without going through SRG. I'm not sure if this would require a phab ticket, but I'd like to understand all of your opinions relating to this before taking any concrete action. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

If you want 2FA just hop over to meta:Steward_requests/Global permissions#Requests for 2 Factor Auth tester permissions - it is pretty much given out on demand. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:37, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I have to echo what xaosflux is saying here. While there's not really a downside to it, it's also not like there's any questions asked past "did you actually read the instructions?", and I can't remember the last time I saw a denied request for any reason other than not answering that question. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 01:01, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, you both are probably right that it's not that much work just to go to SRG. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 01:32, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Especially as this is such a niche group with only a handful not having that access elsewhere, adding custom config here for it is a bit of a waste. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:13, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

This is largely the problem I had with Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_217#Should_other_groups_be_able_to_use_2FA_by_default?, and while there's actually some more merit (at least security-wise) in the proposal of automatic 2FA access for EFHs, it still runs into the same problem of "why not just ask the stewards?" in every case. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 00:32, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

I've been assuming that EFH's will get forced to use 2FA as part of T150898. Nobody (talk) 05:37, 22 April 2025 (UTC)