@Halfak about integrating ORES with AbuseFilter

Bad-Words-Detection-System sounds very similar to this. We use BWDS to find content that is added in revisions that get reverted, but is also uncommon in revisions that are not reverted. We'd probably want to put some sort of user-interface on top of it in order to make it work ad-hoc.

Seems a lot easier to just provide better editing tools (for example something regex101-ish for the regular expressions and Blocky or something similar for the general program structure).

@Tgr, I think this task is about discovering textual patterns in diffs that are worth flagging in AbuseFilter. I'm not sure how better editing tools would make it easier to discover these patterns.

Part of the problem statement was that regexes are hard to use for non-technical users. I was just suggesting that writing an AI might not be the most effective approach to fix that. (For one thing, they still need to be able to evaluate whatever regex suggestions a machine learning system would come up with.)

Oh! That's a good point. Seems like we're looking at two separate problems here. (1) regex syntax is hard and (2) discovering patterns that should exist in abusefilter is hard.

Perhaps instead of suggesting patterns, some kind of score could be passed to filters.

Making ORES scores available to AbuseFilter as variables would be a relatively easy way to partially fix this.

Agreed with MGChecker. There's no need to write from scratch a new AI for detecting vandalism. We already have ORES, let's keep improving it and make it communicate with AF. It'd be a huge advantage to have its score available in AF. I just don't know if it's feasible.