Logging here some info:

(Pdb) result['edit']
{u'info': u'Hit AbuseFilter: Test filter', u'code': u'abusefilter-disallowed', u'warning': u'This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed.\nIf you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do.\nA brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: Test filter', u'result': u'Failure'}

BTW, this was tested on wikisource, I hope all wiki expose the same response ...

I tried to change the filter:
(Pdb) result['edit']
{u'info': u'Hit AbuseFilter: Test filter', u'code': u'test message', u'warning': u'<test message>', u'result': u'Failure'}
'info' seems fixed, 'code' can be customised by filter editor.

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@jayvdb, some more information about this would be very welcome!

I run into this (misconfigured?) abuse filter every once in a while:

  File "C:\pywikibot\coredev\pywikibot\page.py", line 4194, in addSources
    data = self.repo.editSource(self, claims, new=True, **kwargs)
  File "C:\pywikibot\coredev\pywikibot\site.py", line 1087, in callee
    return fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\pywikibot\coredev\pywikibot\site.py", line 5882, in editSource
    data = req.submit()
  File "C:\pywikibot\coredev\pywikibot\data\api.py", line 1734, in submit
    raise APIError(**result['error'])
pywikibot.data.api.APIError: failed-save: <abusefilter-warning-63>
<class 'pywikibot.data.api.APIError'>
CRITICAL: Closing network session.

The only action for this filter (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/63) is to warn. The bot shouldn't throw an api error, the bot should may show a warning and retry.

It should be possible to request whether the abusefilter is a warning (unless abusefilter actually check queries ;) ): https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=abusefilters&abfstartid=63&abflimit=1 And then it could retry it. The question is how to detect it (aka what's are its unique properties in the error message) so that we can just retry it.

We could setup some test cases on one of the test wiki, hit it with a bot and see what the api spits out. Come to think of it, these would also be excellent integrated unit tests to setup ;-)

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I see that a patch has been already merged for this by @Xqt and that some small issues remain.
As this is now too small a task for GSoC/Outreachy, I'm removing the Possible-Tech-Projects project.

In T85656#1705251, @TasneemLo wrote:

I see that a patch has been already merged for this by @Xqt and that some small issues remain.
As this is now too small a task for GSoC/Outreachy, I'm removing the Possible-Tech-Projects project.

No, that is an unrelated patch. See T85656#1011072 .

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In T85656#2093393, @jayvdb wrote:

There are a few abusefilter related problems in pywikibot, so this project would be quite valuable to flesh them out and fix them.

As soon as this task gets a co-mentor, we can have it featured for this round of GSoC/Outreachy. Scope and microtasks are well-defined.

T57460 should help.

@jayvdb can we have this one for the current Outreachy round?

Sure.

Hi I'm a final year undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. I'm interested in working on this project as a part of Outreachy-13, I'm done with gerrit and vagrant set up and familiarising myself with the platform right now. Should I go ahead with the microtask T103284 or is there something else that I can start before that to enhance my grip on the platform, code base and project itself?

In T85656#2643235, @Riddlesj wrote:

Hi I'm a final year undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. I'm interested in working on this project as a part of Outreachy-13, I'm done with gerrit and vagrant set up and familiarising myself with the platform right now. Should I go ahead with the microtask T103284 or is there something else that I can start before that to enhance my grip on the platform, code base and project itself?

You should familiarize yourself with pywikibot and try to fix some easy pywikibot bugs from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/zkPELsbclbQr/#R

If you're confident about the microtask, most welcome to attempt it.

Is this project still missing a mentor?
Is there a common place you all meet periodically? I am interested in mentoring, and would love to introduce myself on the mail-list/IRC.

In T85656#2648682, @Shubhpatel108 wrote:

Is this project still missing a mentor?
Is there a common place you all meet periodically? I am interested in mentoring, and would love to introduce myself on the mail-list/IRC.

@Shubhpatel108 thanks for your interest, the project needs a co-mentor but in order to be a mentor, one needs to have prior experience with contributing to MediaWiki or related experience.

You can introduce yourself on Wikitech-l or MediaWiki-General irc channel. I again state that mentorship requires a decent knowledge of the MediaWiki architecture and previous experience and/or contributions.

Hi all!
I am new and hence unsure about how to start contributing for Outreachy, Could anyone please tell me more about this project?
Thanks :)
Zoya

A good way to start is to set up a MediaWiki installation on your computer, with the abuse filter extension, set up some abuse filter rules on your own wiki, using various abuse rule options, and then

1. trigger them manually with a normal browser
2. trigger them automatically with a MediaWiki client, preferably Pywikibot.

Look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter to see what rules big wikis create, and why, and think about how an automated MediaWiki client should respond when it hits one of those rules.

In T85656#2645232, @Sumit wrote:

In T85656#2643235, @Riddlesj wrote:

Hi I'm a final year undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. I'm interested in working on this project as a part of Outreachy-13, I'm done with gerrit and vagrant set up and familiarising myself with the platform right now. Should I go ahead with the microtask T103284 or is there something else that I can start before that to enhance my grip on the platform, code base and project itself?

Since you mentioned you are a university student, please check out https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Eligibility to confirm your elgibility, please.

@01tonythomas I have my college vacations from Dec to mid Feb i.e. approximately 10-11 weeks of vacations that coincide with the Outreachy internship period, so I can easily give 40+ hours to it. Other than that I'll be in college only for last 3 weeks during the intern, which I think satisfies the eligibility criteria.

This seems to have stalled. It is currently an issue I am running into as well that is preventing my bot from doing its job on commons. It seems convinced that every file is a gallery when it isn't.

@TheSandDoctor: Do you have a traceback for this issue?

Change 680768 had a related patch set uploaded (by JJMC89; author: JJMC89):

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR] Handle abusefilter-{disallow,warning} codes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/680768

Change 680768 merged by jenkins-bot:

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR] Handle abusefilter-{disallow,warning} codes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/680768