Set up EventLogging to see how often blocked users are blocked from performing an action via cookie.
This will help us to make sure that this technique works, and actually keeps blocked people out. It'll also be a signal that tells us if we're blocking too many people. The expected range is somewhere between "some" and "holy cow, that's crazy". This is an imperfect metric, but we live in an imperfect world.
See parent task (T5233) for details.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • TBolliger | T120734 Epic ⚡️ Improve MediaWiki's blocking tools | |||
| Resolved | MusikAnimal | T5233 Send a cookie with each block | |||
| Resolved | Niharika | T146230 Set-up EventLogging to see how often blocked users are blocked via cookie |
Apologies for being technically illiterate, but could the impact of cookie blocks be seen through the front-end interface? This would be useful for those actually giving the blocks, or for CheckUsers investigating block evasion.
I'll like to take this on, unless someone else wanted to. It's a good opportunity to learn how EventLogging works. :)
Well, it's blocked until T5233 is done and merged. Doesn't need to wait for it to be deployed.
Change 320239 had a related patch set uploaded (by Niharika29):
Add eventlogging for checking how often users are blocked from editing due to presence of BlockID cookie
Change 320405 had a related patch set uploaded (by Niharika29):
Add var to User class to store block type for eventlogging purposes
Schema at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:CookieBlock
Added a member to User class to indicate trigger: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/320405
Added a hook to WikimediaEventHooks: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/320239 to log the data
Change 320405 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add var to User class to store block type for eventlogging purposes
Change 320239 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add eventlogging for checking how often users are blocked from editing due to presence of BlockID cookie
The logging does not handle any other blockTrigger value than the ones in the enum declaration. That will be problematic with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324214. Either that field should be defined as a string, or as a boolean and only log whether the trigger was a cookie or not.
Change 330890 had a related patch set uploaded (by Niharika29):
Replace block trigger string by bool to indicate whether it was a cookie block
Change 330890 abandoned by Niharika29:
Replace block trigger string by bool to indicate whether it was a cookie block
Reason:
Per Gergo's comment.
Change 332769 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis):
Only record cookie-block events in eventlogging.
Change 332769 merged by jenkins-bot:
Only record cookie-block events in eventlogging.