That's what I was looking for, thank you very much!
> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 19:30:45 +1000
> From: billinghu...@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Validating wiki text before saving
>
> Sure. I would look to maybe give all the required templates the one
> id="..." as that makes the match for those easiest, otherwise you want to
> use contains_any
>
> contains_any is good for something like
> !contains_any (user_groups, "sysop", "autopatrolled", ...)
>
> At Commons, I did a simple one for main namespace that requires
> <gallery... just ensure that you test them for a while first, and if you
> have enough people watching your RC, then tags are useful.
>
> Best way that I learnt was just looking at different Special:AbuseFilter
> and seeing what the competent were doing, and mimicking their components.
>
> Here is a simple example of one such
>
> article_namespace == 0 & (new_wikitext regex
> "\[\[[Cc]ategory:\s?\d{1,4}\sworks\]\]")
> & action = "edit"
> & !contains_any (user_groups, "sysop")
>
> You will want to do something for things being new pages.
>
> Regards, Billinghurst
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2014 00:19:59 -0500, Arcane 21 <arc...@live.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there was a way to make a filter for the following:
> >
> > New pages must have one of a series of templates (any of the templates
> > will do, as long as at least one is present) and a category of some
> sort.
> >
> > This would only apply to users that are not autopatrolled, bots or
> > administrators.
> >
> > We'd like to have something on our wiki to deter new editors that don't
> > follow the manual of style guidelines and so the filter would be to
> > encourage them to do so, with the hope and intention of encouraging good
> > editing.
> >
> > I'm not very skilled in the use of AbuseFilter, so if someone could show
> > me an example filter that would fit the above (if possible), it would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> >> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> >> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 12:53:52 +1000
> >> From: billinghu...@gmail.com
> >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Validating wiki text before saving
> >>
> >> On Sun, 18 May 2014 19:37:25 -0400, Tom <t...@hutch4.us> wrote:
> >> >> On May 16, 2014, at 10:01 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
> >> >
> >> > The more I think about it the better I like using this extension as a
> >> > solution to Larry's question.
> >> >
> >> > AbuseFilter is pretty flexible. There are already rules created and
> >> being
> >> > used for missing Category(ies) from page edits. You can deny the save
> >> > or
> >> > warn and allow, plus tag the edit.
> >> >
> >> > So all is needed is a filter to check all edits for a url with the
> >> wiki's
> >> > domain name. A gentle reminder, you do not need to use this syntax
> with
> >> an
> >> > example of what to use. Or the hard road, not allowed please use
> this.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Tom
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> >> An advantage of such an approach is that you can provide very specific,
> >> direct and customised information and guidance. English Wikisource has
> an
> >> abuse filter that checks a namespace for specific template that is
> >> required
> >> to be present, and where it is not, then guidance is given on the
> format,
> >> and links to specific help pages.
> >>
> >> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/1
> >> In fact this was created as a filter before we even thought about its
> use
> >> in abuse settings.
> >>
> >> Sometimes it would nice to be able to cascade filters, or exclude on
> the
> >> basis of a previous filter, however, that is not yet possible.
> >>
> >> Regards, Billinghurst
> >>
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