<div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/18 nathaniel tkacz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathanieltkacz@gmail.com">nathanieltkacz@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
very interesting indeed dror - i wonder if anyone who follows the wp tech lists knows anything of it. is this new? was it discussed?<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>If you follow the link to the parent page, you can learn some details about the Edit filter:<br>
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter</a><br><br>Apparently, it's working since March 2009. Interestingly, it is the first time I've heard of anyone affected by this bot. I'm curious about the type of comment that was being filtered. I mean, perhaps not the answer from friend's friend of Dror, but the original comment from other user this person was trying to reply to.<br>
<br>From the page of false positives, I read several cases in which you are filtered because you reproduce in you answer inappropriate words from a prior edit, or you are deleting vandalism.<br><br>Thanks for the heads up.<br>
<br>Felipe.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div></div><div>perhaps our resident botologist, stuart geiger, knows something of these developments?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Dror Kamir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dqamir@bezeqint.net" target="_blank">dqamir@bezeqint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
An interesting anecdote that has been brought to my attention -<br>
<br>
A friend's friend of mine tried to write a comment on the Talk Page
of the English WP's article about the Golan Heights. The comment was
detailed and referred to fallacies in comments of another user. The
discussion is interesting for itself, but a technical issue that
happened when he tried to post the comment was much more
interesting.<br>
<br>
He is not someone who regularly writes on WP, and registering for
one comment seemed to him inappropriate (his intuition worked well,
he could have been accused of being a "sock puppet" for such
registration). So he wrote whatever he wrote, pressed "save page",
and received the following error message: "<b>An automated filter
has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has
been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives" target="_blank">report this error</a></b>".
He thought something was wrong with his Internet connection, so he
reconnected. The error message was still there. He then clicked the
"report this error" link. This link led him to a page, in which he
had to search for another link (I think this is the page:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives</a>).
Luckily, the link was on the top of that page, so he found it
quickly and clicked it. An edit box with all kinds of strange
markings and explanations appeared. He eventually found where to
write the name of the page on which he tried to post his comment.
Below it he pasted the comment that triggered the error message.
When pressing "save page" he received an error message: "<b>An
automated filter has identified this edit as potentially
unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is
constructive, please <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives" target="_blank">report this error</a></b>".<br>
<br>
Had I been cruel, I'd say it is a combination of Kafka and Orwell -
the encyclopedia that anyone can edit gets you in an indefinite loop
in order to prevent you from editing. I'm not that cruel, so instead
I had a good laugh and decided to share it with you. <br>
<br>
Dror K<br>
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