Project:Abuse filter
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The edit filter or abuse filter is a tool that allows editors in the edit filter manager group to set controls, mainly to address common patterns of harmful editing. The current filters can be found at Special:AbuseFilter. A filter automatically compares every edit made to Wikipedia against a defined set of conditions. If an edit matches the conditions of a filter, that filter will respond by logging the edit. The filter logs can be found at Special:AbuseLog. It may also tag the edit summary, require users to complete a CAPTCHA successfully to save their edit, warn the editors before they save their edit, revoke their autoconfirmed status, and/or disallow the edit entirely.
The AbuseFilter extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia in 2009. The term "edit filter" is currently used for user-facing elements of the filter, rather than "abuse filter", as some edits it flags are not harmful; the terms are otherwise synonymous.