Viewing abuse filter 7: Repeating characters

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7

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Of the last 16 actions, this filter has matched 0 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.17 ms, and it consumes 2.6 conditions of the condition limit.

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!contains_any(user_groups, "sysadmin", "sysop", "bot") & (user_editcount < 60 | user_age < 604800) & ( /* disallowed in content namespaces */ ( equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 4, 10, 12, 14, 118) & ( rmwhitespace(added_lines) rlike "([^_:.,*'|=#}{0 -]{1,9})\1{7}" | added_lines rlike "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{9,}" ) & !( rmwhitespace(removed_lines) rlike "([^_:.,*'|=#}{-]{1,9})\1{6}" | removed_lines rlike "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{8,}" | added_lines rlike "https?:\/\/\S*([^_:*'|=}{-]{1,9})\1{7}|https?:\/\/\S*[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{7,}|(^|\n)[|!]" | added_lines irlike "number|spell|math|string|<br\b|begin|end(?:if|while|for){0,1}\b|User:" | added_lines rlike "[\W\d]\.\d*(\d{1,9})\1{7}" | page_title irlike "number" ) & /* exclude most sandbox edits */ !( page_prefixedtitle rlike "^(?:Template:(?:Template sandbox|X(?:[1-9]|1\d|20))|Ubuntu_Wiki:Sandbox|Draft:Sandbox)$" & new_size < 65536 ) ) | /* disallowed in any namespace */ ( /* do not lower this below 3 characters */ zalgo := "[\x{0300}-\x{036f}]{3,}"; summary rlike zalgo | (added_lines rlike zalgo & !(removed_lines rlike zalgo)) ) )

!contains_any(user_groups, "sysadmin", "sysop", "bot") &
(user_editcount < 60 | user_age < 604800) &
(
  /* disallowed in content namespaces */
  (
    equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 4, 10, 12, 14, 118) &
    (
      rmwhitespace(added_lines) rlike "([^_:.,*'|=#}{0 -]{1,9})\1{7}" |
      added_lines rlike "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{9,}"
    ) &
    !(
      rmwhitespace(removed_lines) rlike "([^_:.,*'|=#}{-]{1,9})\1{6}" |
      removed_lines rlike "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{8,}" |
      added_lines rlike "https?:\/\/\S*([^_:*'|=}{-]{1,9})\1{7}|https?:\/\/\S*[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{7,}|(^|\n)[|!]" |
      added_lines irlike "number|spell|math|string|<br\b|begin|end(?:if|while|for){0,1}\b|User:" |
      added_lines rlike "[\W\d]\.\d*(\d{1,9})\1{7}" |
      page_title irlike "number"
    ) &
    /* exclude most sandbox edits */
    !(
      page_prefixedtitle rlike "^(?:Template:(?:Template sandbox|X(?:[1-9]|1\d|20))|Ubuntu_Wiki:Sandbox|Draft:Sandbox)$" &
      new_size < 65536
    )
  ) |
  /* disallowed in any namespace */
  (
    /* do not lower this below 3 characters */
    zalgo := "[\x{0300}-\x{036f}]{3,}";
    summary rlike zalgo |
    (added_lines rlike zalgo & !(removed_lines rlike zalgo))
  )
)

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Adapted from Wikipedia's filter 135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/135

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Filter last modified:

21:47, 1 July 2026 by Kkuo (talk | contribs)

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