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Statistics:	Of the last 153,537 actions, this filter has matched 2 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.14 ms, and it consumes 1.5 conditions of the condition limit.
Conditions: (documentation)	!"confirmed" in user_groups & ( art := "(?x) # Regular expressions [B38][-=]{2,}D \|[C<][-=]{4,}8 \|$\s\.\sY\s\.\s$ # Fixed strings \|\Q>>>>\E \|\QB == D\E \|\Q( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)\E \|\Q#########@########\E \|\Q4$$$$$$\E \|\Q░▄█▄░\E \|\Q\__/\___/\E \|\Q/'/.../..../\E \|\Q”=,_.......“-,\E \|\Q░░░░░\E "; added_lines rlike art & !(removed_lines rlike art) ) & page_namespace != 2 & page_title != "Sandbox" & !((old_wikitext + new_wikitext ) rlike "outemap\|BS-map") !"confirmed" in user_groups & ( art := "(?x) # Regular expressions [B38][-=]{2,}D \|[C<][-=]{4,}8 \|$\s\.\sY\s\.\s$ # Fixed strings \|\Q>>>>\E \|\QB == D\E \|\Q( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)\E \|\Q#########@########\E \|\Q4$$$$$$\E \|\Q░▄█▄░\E \|\Q\__/\___/\E \|\Q/'/.../..../\E \|\Q”=,_.......“-,\E \|\Q░░░░░\E "; added_lines rlike art & !(removed_lines rlike art) ) & page_namespace != 2 & page_title != "Sandbox" & !((old_wikitext + new_wikitext ) rlike "outemap\|BS-map")
Notes:	goatsex ASCII art This would be handier if it detected general ascii art, rather than this particular one. -- Disabling for now for performence reasons. Adding an edit count and picking just a small amount of the goatsex ASCII (but one that's unlikely to have any legitimate use). The edit count limit should improve performance. Gonna enable this (without actions) to see. --NW Caught the last bunch of Fang vandalism, run time only 6.4ms, going to enable disallowance. --NW Updating. --NW More updating. --NW "##::"? Though very rare, that can still operate as well formed wikitext. Surely there is something better than that to target. -DF -I presume that was for the giant goatse ascii art, replaced with ";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;" - slightly easier to get around, but less false positive chance. - Mr.Z-man New one. --NW Another, see User:Batlh. --NW And 2 more, see User:Sholvahh. ASCII art is the meme of the night, apparently. --NW Adding <big><big><big>, not exactly ASCII art, but still graphics-related vandalism. --NW <big><big><big> is contained in [[User:Quinsareth]]'s signature and is causing some false positives. Removing for now until we can get him to change it. - Hersfold Joker vandalism. Yes, I tested it. --NW Joker tweak, broadening a bit. --NW *And broadening a little further. Tested. --NW More Joker, let's try this. Tested. --NW More Joker. Tested. --NW Let's try this. Tested. --NW **And more Joker. Tested. --NW Add 1, tested. --NW 6/19 1 more, tested. --NW 7/5 More of same, tested. --NW 7/5 Add 1, tested. --NW 8/5 1 more, tested. --NW 8/9 New spam, tested. --NW 8/20 added ' ,,,:#,' as used in Avril Lavigne vandalism --zzuuzz +1, tested. --NW 9/14 +1, tested. -- NW 10/5 +1, tested. --NW 10/5 Pruning. --NW 10/20 +1, tested. --NW 10/30 +1, tested. --NW 11/24 +2 moved from rule 77, consolidating +1 --NW 12/3 Excluded user name space. Ruslik +1 --NW +1 --NW 3/23 Added 4chan triforcing -- Shirik 25 Mar 2010 Changed triforce to ∆ ∆ because there are a lot of legitimate uses of ∆ -- Soap Adding exception for sandbox. - Someguy1221 Remove <big><big><big>, possibility of false positives. - KoH +pedobear --zzuuzz Check edit summary for cocks. This seems to be getting more and more common. --Reaper Condition limit 7%, there are more important filters later on. Disabling temporarily. - KoH Being used by serial vandal, restoring. --NW 5/27 Adding "Meeposheep" & swastikas. --Reaper Added "butt dance". --Reaper More cocks. --Reaper Fixing FP. --Reaper Consolidation, added regex cock check. --Reaper OOPS! --Reaper Merging from overlapping filter 77. --Reaper "[[bewbz]]". --Reaper Matched <!--sdfsd8--> comments! --Reaper Removed several redundant entries and text format. --Reaper +Pentagram and swastika. --Reaper +Facepalm. --Reaper +Dick. --Reaper +Finger. --Reaper Updating so only the longer cocks are detected. --Reaper 2012-04-16 Removing some old phrases. -- Reaper 2012-08-20 Rm 1 per request. --NW 3/13/14 Removing a couple that seemed to be causing a lot of false positives. --Someguy1221 Trying those again, in a more limited way. --NW *And limiting even more. --NW +1, spambots --NW A recent edit to this filter seems to be causing many false positives - reverting it "========" will just cause a bunch of false positives. Removed. Please think in the future... - Shirik 17 Sep -5, FP report --NW Removed ones with nowiki due to FPs. --Jackmcbarn Removed "~ ~" which is a terrible indicator for a very frequently used combination of wikitext. - Shirik Add some light preemption for non-content edits. -DF Removed %41 and %53 - these have nothing to do with ASCII art and were causing FPs. Removed those covered by "B=" and "=D", also treated any three ":" or ";" as ASCII art RF "░░░░░" also makes another line redundant. RF rm ":::" as it has expected usage on talk pages ~MA Straight/non-optimized conversion+escaping from contains_any(...) to rlike (condition count complaints in archive7) --slakr/17 Aug 2015 :Converting this is a good idea, but the current effort generated false positives. See:WT:EF. -DF rm ";;;" as valid wiki syntax. --Samwalton9, 28 Jan '16 Adding exception for Routemap, as it often contains some of these strings as part of its usual syntax. Toggling off disallow while observing. ~ Rob Adding an exception for BS-map as well for similar reasons. ~ Rob Adding above exceptions to new_wikitext. RF 2017-10-16 Exclude user namespace. If people want this silliness in their userspace, so what? If they try to vandalize another user's page, 803 will stop them. --Suffusion of Yellow 21:39 2 Nov 2019 Format, simplify, optimize. --Suffusion of Yellow 21:47 2 Nov 2019 Make public per [[Special:PermaLink/924422334#Unprivate edit filter 31 (ASCII art)]] --Suffusion of Yellow 19:33 4 Nov 2019 Prune out everything with no mainspace hits out of last 1000 (> 1 year). --Suffusion of Yellow 03:33 23 Oct 2022 Check removed lines to reduce FPs. Also exclude Wikipedia:Sandbox. Might need to narrow to Main and Main talk like most anti-vandal filters, but hopefully this reduce FPs for now. --Galobtter 05:40 24 Mar 2023 Refactor as regex so we can check removed_lines without duplicating the list. Using (?x) and \Q...\E to avoid a mess of escapes. --Suffusion of Yellow 20:18 23 Nov 2023
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Removing for now until we can get him to change it. - Hersfold\r\n\r\nJoker vandalism. Yes, I tested it. --NW\r\n Joker tweak, broadening a bit. --NW\r\n*And broadening a little further. Tested. --NW\r\n More Joker, let's try this. Tested. --NW\r\n More Joker. Tested. --NW\r\nLet's try this. Tested. --NW\r\n**And more Joker. Tested. --NW\r\nAdd 1, tested. --NW 6/19\r\n 1 more, tested. --NW 7/5\r\nMore of same, tested. --NW 7/5\r\n\r\nAdd 1, tested. --NW 8/5\r\n 1 more, tested. --NW 8/9\r\nNew spam, tested. --NW 8/20\r\n\r\nadded ' ,,,:#,' as used in Avril Lavigne vandalism --zzuuzz\r\n+1, tested. --NW 9/14\r\n+1, tested. -- NW 10/5\r\n+1, tested. --NW 10/5\r\nPruning. --NW 10/20\r\n+1, tested. --NW 10/30\r\n+1, tested. --NW 11/24\r\n+2 moved from rule 77, consolidating\r\n+1 --NW 12/3\r\n\r\nExcluded user name space. Ruslik\r\n+1 --NW\r\n+1 --NW 3/23\r\nAdded 4chan triforcing -- Shirik 25 Mar 2010\r\nChanged triforce to \u2206 \u2206 because there are a lot of legitimate uses of \u2206 -- Soap\r\n\r\nAdding exception for sandbox. - Someguy1221\r\n\r\nRemove \u003Cbig\u003E\u003Cbig\u003E\u003Cbig\u003E, possibility of false positives. - KoH\r\n\r\n+pedobear --zzuuzz\r\n\r\nCheck edit summary for cocks. This seems to be getting more and more common. --Reaper\r\n\r\nCondition limit 7%, there are more important filters later on. Disabling temporarily. - KoH\r\n\r\nBeing used by serial vandal, restoring. --NW 5/27\r\n\r\nAdding \"Meeposheep\" \u0026 swastikas. --Reaper\r\nAdded \"butt dance\". --Reaper\r\nMore cocks. --Reaper\r\nFixing FP. --Reaper\r\nConsolidation, added regex cock check. --Reaper\r\nOOPS! --Reaper\r\nMerging from overlapping filter 77. --Reaper\r\n\"[[bewbz]]\". --Reaper\r\nMatched \u003C!--sdfsd8--\u003E comments! --Reaper\r\nRemoved several redundant entries and text format. --Reaper\r\n+Pentagram and swastika. --Reaper\r\n+Facepalm. --Reaper\r\n+Dick. --Reaper\r\n+Finger. --Reaper\r\n\r\nUpdating so only the longer cocks are detected. --Reaper 2012-04-16\r\n\r\nRemoving some old phrases. -- Reaper 2012-08-20\r\n\r\nRm 1 per request. --NW 3/13/14\r\n\r\nRemoving a couple that seemed to be causing a lot of false positives. --Someguy1221\r\nTrying those again, in a more limited way. --NW\r\n*And limiting even more. --NW\r\n\r\n+1, spambots --NW\r\n\r\nA recent edit to this filter seems to be causing many false positives - reverting it\r\n\r\n\"========\" will just cause a bunch of false positives. Removed. Please think in the future... - Shirik 17 Sep\r\n\r\n-5, FP report --NW\r\n\r\nRemoved ones with nowiki due to FPs. --Jackmcbarn\r\n\r\nRemoved \"~ ~\" which is a terrible indicator for a very frequently used combination of wikitext. - Shirik\r\n\r\nAdd some light preemption for non-content edits. -DF\r\n\r\nRemoved %41 and %53 - these have nothing to do with ASCII art and were causing FPs.\r\n\r\nRemoved those covered by \"B=\" and \"=D\", also treated any three \":\" or \";\" as ASCII art RF\r\n\"\u2591\u2591\u2591\u2591\u2591\" also makes another line redundant. RF\r\n\r\nrm \":::\" as it has expected usage on talk pages ~MA\r\n\r\nStraight/non-optimized conversion+escaping from contains_any(...) to rlike (condition count complaints in archive7) --slakr/17 Aug 2015\r\n\r\n:Converting this is a good idea, but the current effort generated false positives. 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