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Addition of AbuseFilter blocking for the Portuguese Wikipedia
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I would like to request blocking by AbuseFilter to be added for Portuguese Wikipedia, with the preset duration set as 3 days.

I'm a sysop, interface admin and checkuser for ptwiki. Dealing with LTAs and creating filters for them, the block by AbuseFilter is now needed, as now they can keep trying as long as they're undetected.

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Anoop changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".EditedMar 7 2026, 6:19 AM
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@BraunOBruno : In the future, please always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting such site configuration changes. Thanks!

Please provide link to community discussion

@Unicord: Wrong link, that is a random category on meta. This first needs a community consensus from the Portuguese Wikipedia community.

@Anoop, @Aklapper: There is now consensus on ptwiki for this proposal, see here.

codenamenoreste changed the task status from Stalled to In Progress.Mar 13 2026, 12:15 AM
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Change #1251200 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit Patch Uploader; author: Codename Noreste):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251200

Change #1251318 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit Patch Uploader; author: Codename Noreste):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251318

Change #1251318 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit Patch Uploader; author: Codename Noreste):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251318

For some reason, after trial and error, I made several fixes to the patch but this somehow created a separate patch in which I can't merge the two. I think I generated a new change ID by accident, let me fix the original patch...

Change #1251318 abandoned by Majavah:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter

Reason:

dupe of I240e7d41d1f1abf3cfb14e01890806080d69cf20

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251318

@codenamenoreste this doesn’t appear to have been deployed at the set date (March 13); option still unavailable.

@codenamenoreste this doesn’t appear to have been deployed at the set date (March 13); option still unavailable.

I believe the change was not fully approved, despite saying that the change was okay to deploy. I think one of the sysadmins need to approve the change, while the date needs to be pushed back to possibly tomorrow.

@codenamenoreste this doesn’t appear to have been deployed at the set date (March 13); option still unavailable.

I believe the change was not fully approved, despite saying that the change was okay to deploy. I think one of the sysadmins need to approve the change, while the date needs to be pushed back to possibly tomorrow.

When you schedule a patch for deployment you need to be present at backport window https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Getting_started for patch to be deployed

This already has consensus and Verified +2. Could someone take a look for +2 so it can be merged?

Change #1251200 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251200

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-25T13:20:51Z] <awight@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1260614|[beta] Kill synthetic refs with feature flag (T421055)]], [[gerrit:1251193|idwiki: Remove unused user groups on Indonesian Wikipedia (T419105)]], [[gerrit:1251200|ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter (T419312)]], [[gerrit:1256748|ptwiki: Add suppressredirect to autoreviewer and rollbacker user groups (T420704)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-25T13:23:05Z] <awight@deploy2002> codenamenoreste, awight, gerrit-patch-uploader: Backport for [[gerrit:1260614|[beta] Kill synthetic refs with feature flag (T421055)]], [[gerrit:1251193|idwiki: Remove unused user groups on Indonesian Wikipedia (T419105)]], [[gerrit:1251200|ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter (T419312)]], [[gerrit:1256748|ptwiki: Add suppressredirect to autoreviewer and rollbacker user groups (T420704)]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-25T13:32:24Z] <awight@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1260614|[beta] Kill synthetic refs with feature flag (T421055)]], [[gerrit:1251193|idwiki: Remove unused user groups on Indonesian Wikipedia (T419105)]], [[gerrit:1251200|ptwiki: Enable block action for the abuse filter (T419312)]], [[gerrit:1256748|ptwiki: Add suppressredirect to autoreviewer and rollbacker user groups (T420704)]] (duration: 11m 33s)

The block action for the abuse filter has been activated, with the preset being three days for both registered and unregistered users.