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en.wp abuseFilter for new references to predatory OA journal/publisher should highlight which DOIs were matched/detected
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If one (accidentally) adds one or more new references to a OA journal/publisher, basically pay-to-publish publishers, one gets the warning below after clicking "Publish changes":

Warning: An automated filter has identified this edit as introducing references to a predatory open access journal or publisher. Predatory open access publishing is considered self-publishing due to lack of peer-review and predatory journals are rarely, if ever, appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia. If you are confident that you want to cite this source anyway, please click 'Publish changes' again. Note that citations to predatory journals are routinely removed.

The problem is that it includes a long list of DOIs of such publishers but doesn't tell you which were detected (see screenshot below).

This means you have to do something like searching for all the many DOIs there one after another to find the one/s that were detected so that you can remove, check or replace them (which takes a lot of time if the user even puts up with that instead of aborting the edit). It should only display the DOIs that were detected or highlight the detected items of the list or list the detected ones separately to the list.

It has to detect the DOIs in some way so it should already be easily possible to display these DOIs.

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Headbomb/unreliable
I don't know if it's this filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/891
Screenshot:

filter.png (941×3,637 px, 686 KB)

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Note that the image F35252843 in this ticket is restricted to the task author and cannot be seen by anyone else. Which piece of software is this about?

Note that the image F35252843 in this ticket is restricted to the task author and cannot be seen by anyone else. Which piece of software is this about?

I only see the displayed notification so I don't know which software it's about but I added two links which may be or link to the software that this is about. Can the screenshot be seen now?

That looks like a local AbuseFilter setup to me. Did you discuss this on English Wikipedia before?

No, wouldn't know which page would be more relevant than a VillagePump discussion, but after all it's in English Wikipedia's code so thought it would best go here. Also I'm not that worried about this issue, it simply should get fixed asap but it isn't particularly important or annoying to me personally. I wondered why nobody solved this yet and searched for discussions about it but found none.

Aklapper renamed this task from The automated filter for new references to predatory OA journal/publisher should highlight which DOIs were detected to en.wp abuseFilter for new references to predatory OA journal/publisher should highlight which DOIs were matched/detected.Jun 19 2022, 8:31 PM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".
Aklapper added a project: AbuseFilter.