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Filter ID:	135
Description: (publicly viewable)
Statistics:	Of the last 193,170 actions, this filter has matched 17 (0.01%). On average, its run time is 0.13 ms, and it consumes 1.3 conditions of the condition limit.
Conditions: (documentation)	!"confirmed" in user_groups & ( page_namespace == 0 & ( ( 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}" & ! added_lines rlike "[\W\d]\.\d(\d{1,9})\1{7}" & ! page_title irlike "number" ) ) ) !"confirmed" in user_groups & ( page_namespace == 0 & ( ( 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}" & ! added_lines rlike "[\W\d]\.\d(\d{1,9})\1{7}" & ! page_title irlike "number" ) ) )
Notes:	Catch copy/paste vandalism like hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. --Wknight94 This doesn't need to be private. -BJ This has far too many false positives to be set to disallow... Not to mention that it seems to block people from using "..." and "'''''" (for bold/italic), amongst other things. --Conti It can at least warn. "'''''''" problem is fixed now. Added curly brace exception too. Need example of "..." since at least 7 occurrences are needed to trigger. --Wknight94 Changed title to something more neutral. --Conti Too many false positives - mostly in reference URLs. Unless someone has a clever way to fix, this is causing more harm than good IMHO. Agreed, please do not enable this filter without substantial changes, and substantial log only testing. -Prodego removing the quote, it was triggered by '''xxxx''' in certain cases -- Luk The filter should ignore urls. - Ruslik Ignoring all edits with URLs in them isn't a good idea. I've made it a bit more complex, actually checking if a link contains repeating chars. If any added link contains added chars, it stops. Theoretically we could do all sorts of counting to make sure there isn't a link with repeating chars AND other repeating chars, but I think that would just eat away at needless conditions, considering it is likely very rare. -Prodego Turning out not to be too useful and the filter is overwrought now. Disabling. -Wknight94 Merged testing edit summary from 292 - Shirik 12 Feb 2010 Optimized summary block - Shirik 12 Feb 2010 ignoring if repeated chars was already there, per request -- Jun 18, Soap Merge filter 366 into this. – Oct 28, EdoDodo Filter tripped the rate limit. I reset it; I didn't see any FPs. -- Shirik 7 Nov 2010 Reset rate limit. - KoH 10 Mar 2011 Simplify. -Sole Soul Ignore zero - FPs. --Reaper 2012-05-25 Format. -DF - Replace deprecated parameters - Xa Ignore repeated # too. -G 2019-12-21 Set to disallow per [[Special:PermaLink/932138447#Set_filter_135_(Repeating_characters)_to_disallow?]] -G 2019-12-24 Exempt commas, used in table formatting. - KoH 2020-04-15 Exclude repeating decimals like 10.216666666666667. Based on a change suggested by Tamzin. --Suffusion of Yellow 20:00 1 Apr 2022 == for comparison! --TNT Excluding "begin" and "end" (and related valid pseudocode terms) to avoid false positives relating to nested begin-end loops inside (pseudo-)code blocks (see: [[Special:AbuseLog/35527217]] and [[Special:Diff/1165729932]]) -- RTH 16 July 2023
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Filter last modified:	03:58, 17 July 2023 by Red-tailed hawk (talk \| contribs)
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