Viewing abuse filter 14: Suspicious use of emoji unicode characters

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Of the last 16 actions, this filter has matched 0 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.1 ms, and it consumes 1.1 conditions of the condition limit.

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page_namespace == 0 & ( emoji := "[" + "\\x{2600}-\\x{2604}" + "\\x{2607}-\\x{263F}" + "\\x{2643}-\\x{2665}" + "\\x{2667}-\\x{266C}" + "\\x{2670}-\\x{26AC}" + "\\x{26AE}-\\x{2712}" + "\\x{2719}-\\x{272F}" + "\\x{2731}-\\x{27BF}" + "\\x{2B1B}-\\x{2B1C}" + "\\x{1F100}-\\x{1F1FF}" + "\\x{1F300}-\\x{1F64F}" + "\\x{1F680}-\\x{1F6F3}" + "\\x{1F7E5}-\\x{1F7EB}" + "\\x{1F90D}-\\x{1F9FF}" + "\\x{1F595}" + "]"; emojiref := "<\s*ref[^\/]*>[^<]*"+emoji; added_lines rlike emoji & !(removed_lines rlike emoji) & !(added_lines rlike emojiref) & !(equals_to_any(page_id, 513844, 24133, 37574004, 54585305)) & !(added_lines irlike "unicode|nihongo") & !(new_wikitext irlike "\bastro|category:unicode blocks") )

page_namespace == 0 & (
    emoji := "[" +
        "\\x{2600}-\\x{2604}" +
        "\\x{2607}-\\x{263F}" +
        "\\x{2643}-\\x{2665}" +
        "\\x{2667}-\\x{266C}" +
        "\\x{2670}-\\x{26AC}" +
        "\\x{26AE}-\\x{2712}" +
        "\\x{2719}-\\x{272F}" +
        "\\x{2731}-\\x{27BF}" +
        "\\x{2B1B}-\\x{2B1C}" +
        "\\x{1F100}-\\x{1F1FF}" +
        "\\x{1F300}-\\x{1F64F}" +
        "\\x{1F680}-\\x{1F6F3}" +
        "\\x{1F7E5}-\\x{1F7EB}" +
        "\\x{1F90D}-\\x{1F9FF}" +
        "\\x{1F595}" +
        "]";
    emojiref := "<\s*ref[^\/]*>[^<]*"+emoji;
    added_lines rlike emoji &
    !(removed_lines rlike emoji) &
    !(added_lines rlike emojiref) &
    !(equals_to_any(page_id, 513844, 24133, 37574004, 54585305)) & 
    !(added_lines irlike "unicode|nihongo") &
    !(new_wikitext irlike "\bastro|category:unicode blocks")
)

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Adopted from Wikipedia filter 680
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/680

Interesting false positive when pasting output from OpenCode:
⚙mediawiki-mcp-server_get-recent-changes [limit=5]
Needed to remove the ⚙
--SC

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13:51, 9 September 2026 by Shanecrowley (talk | contribs)

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{"data":{"rules":"page_namespace == 0 \u0026 (\r\n    emoji := \"[\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2600}-\\\\x{2604}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2607}-\\\\x{263F}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2643}-\\\\x{2665}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2667}-\\\\x{266C}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2670}-\\\\x{26AC}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{26AE}-\\\\x{2712}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2719}-\\\\x{272F}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2731}-\\\\x{27BF}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{2B1B}-\\\\x{2B1C}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{1F100}-\\\\x{1F1FF}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{1F300}-\\\\x{1F64F}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{1F680}-\\\\x{1F6F3}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{1F7E5}-\\\\x{1F7EB}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{1F90D}-\\\\x{1F9FF}\" +\r\n        \"\\\\x{1F595}\" +\r\n        \"]\";\r\n    emojiref := \"\u003C\\s*ref[^\\/]*\u003E[^\u003C]*\"+emoji;\r\n    added_lines rlike emoji \u0026\r\n    !(removed_lines rlike emoji) \u0026\r\n    !(added_lines rlike emojiref) \u0026\r\n    !(equals_to_any(page_id, 513844, 24133, 37574004, 54585305)) \u0026 \r\n    !(added_lines irlike \"unicode|nihongo\") \u0026\r\n    !(new_wikitext irlike \"\\bastro|category:unicode blocks\")\r\n)","name":"Suspicious use of emoji unicode characters","comments":"Adopted from Wikipedia filter 680\r\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/680\r\n\r\nInteresting false positive when pasting output from OpenCode:\r\n\u2699mediawiki-mcp-server_get-recent-changes [limit=5]\r\nNeeded to remove the \u2699\r\n--SC","group":"default","actions":{"disallow":["abusefilter-disallowed"]},"enabled":true,"deleted":false,"privacylevel":0,"global":false},"actions":{"disallow":["abusefilter-disallowed"]}}

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