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Administrator (called "abusefilter-blocker") without contributions or log entries in the Mongolian Wikipedia
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Hi,

As part of some research that I'm doing in the Mongolian Wikipedia, I found an administrator account called Доромжлол шүүгч that doesn't have anything in Special:Contributions, or any log entries.

It appears as a red link on https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/sysop .

Perhaps it's not a usual kind of a security issue, but I couldn't think of a better way to report it.

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Sounds like an abusefilter account?

Not familiar with it. Is it a documented feature?

[[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]

Of course, but this particular thing with an account that doesn't have any contribution—where is it documented?

Hold on while I grab the task... I recall there's a task about that.

MarcoAurelio changed the visibility from "Custom Policy" to "Public (No Login Required)".
Aklapper renamed this task from An administrator without contributions or log entries in the Mongolian Wikipedia to Administrator (called "abusefilter-blocker") without contributions or log entries in the Mongolian Wikipedia.Oct 17 2019, 1:47 PM

Aklapper renamed this task from An administrator without contributions or log entries in the Mongolian Wikipedia to Administrator (called "abusefilter-blocker") without contributions or log entries in the Mongolian Wikipedia.Thu

Well, it's not exactly called "abusefilter-blocker", but "Доромжлол шүүгч", which cannot be understood by someone who doesn't know Mongolian...

Well, it's not exactly called "abusefilter-blocker", but "Доромжлол шүүгч", which cannot be understood by someone who doesn't know Mongolian...

That's not a problem specific to this issue that you don't understand a word in a language if you do not know that language. So I'll stick to English in Phabricator. :)

$:acko\> grep -r Доромжлол .
./abusefilter/i18n/mn.json:	"abusefilter-blocker": "Доромжлол шүүгч",

Well, it's not exactly called "abusefilter-blocker", but "Доромжлол шүүгч", which cannot be understood by someone who doesn't know Mongolian...

That's not a problem specific to this issue that you don't understand a word in a language if you do not know that language. So I'll stick to English in Phabricator. :)

$:acko\> grep -r Доромжлол .
./abusefilter/i18n/mn.json:	"abusefilter-blocker": "Доромжлол шүүгч",

Yeah, but grepping a particular extension's source trees is not the most obvious thing to do :)

Yeah, but picking one translation and putting that one into the task summary is not helpful either when most folks here understand English...