Viewing abuse filter 19: CamelCase

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Of the last 16 actions, this filter has matched 0 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.06 ms, and it consumes 2.5 conditions of the condition limit.

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( action == "edit" & page_namespace == 0 & !page_id & !(new_wikitext rlike "^#REDIRECT") & page_title rlike "[a-z][A-Z]" ) | ( action == "move" & moved_to_namespace == 0 & moved_to_title rlike "[a-z][A-Z]" )

(
  action == "edit" &
  page_namespace == 0 &
  !page_id &
  !(new_wikitext rlike "^#REDIRECT") &
  page_title rlike "[a-z][A-Z]"
)
|
(
  action == "move" &
  moved_to_namespace == 0 &
  moved_to_title rlike "[a-z][A-Z]"
)

Notes:

The old Ubuntu wikis used CamelCase titles, so people legitimately migrating pages might encounter this warning, but we do want to avoid too many of these titles from propagating. We exclude pages that are detected as redirects, because CamelCase redirects will be required.

16/09/26: Updated to prevent false positives when an existing page with a CamelCase title is edited subsequent times. --- Shane

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11:50, 16 September 2026 by Shanecrowley (talk | contribs)

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