Viewing filter 231: Long string of characters containing no spaces

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Filter ID:	231
Description: (publicly viewable)
Filter hits:	489,361 hits
Statistics:	Of the last 38,367 actions, this filter has matched 4 (0.01%). On average, its run time is 0.11 ms, and it consumes 2.7 conditions of the condition limit.
Conditions: (documentation)	!("confirmed" in user_groups) & page_namespace == 0 & ( stringy := "[\p{L}\p{N}]{50}"; added_lines rlike stringy & !(removed_lines rlike stringy) & !(added_lines irlike ( "(?:file\s:\|image\s:\|https?://)[^\s]?"+stringy+"\|word\|sequence\|number\|digit\|data:image\|[\\x{4E00}-\\x{9FFF}]\|math" ) ) & !(added_links rlike stringy) ) !("confirmed" in user_groups) & page_namespace == 0 & ( stringy := "[\p{L}\p{N}]{50}"; added_lines rlike stringy & !(removed_lines rlike stringy) & !(added_lines irlike ( "(?:file\s:\|image\s:\|https?://)[^\s]?"+stringy+"\|word\|sequence\|number\|digit\|data:image\|[\\x{4E00}-\\x{9FFF}]\|math" ) ) & !(added_links rlike stringy) )
Notes:	A long string of letters and/or numbers may be indicative of vandalism. - KoH FP: Adding links. - KoH Made the string length allowed before tagging longer, as it's catching URLs.. -Versageek Hope this check for http is better... - KoH Also check https. - KoH Virtually everything triggering this hits another filter, and this uses a lot of conditions, disabled, consider merging in to 135. -Prodego -ok -P Turn to disallow. -Sole Soul I can think of legitimate uses for 50+ character strings. From experience, in a warn-tag filter, a warning already blocks out over 75% of the vandalism. - KoH False positives are associated with the word "word". -Sole Soul Optimize for conditions. RF 20150724 Adding the word "image" per false positive. Od Mishehu 20171227 Use "\p{L}\p{N}" to catch unicode character repetition; make exceptions slightly more focused. -G 2019-02-25 Disallow per [[Special:PermaLink/885595932#Setting_Filter_231_to_disallow?]] -G 2019-03-01 Exempt CJK chars due to lack of spacing in those languages. - KoH 2022-07-16 Simplify regex. --Suffusion of Yellow 23:14 25 Nov 2022 So that we don't trigger on items in "math" tags, which may reasonable be long numerical strings without spaces ([[Special:AbuseLog/35551832]]) -- RTH (23:07, 2023 July 20) Also check added_links; most of the time this covered by the "https?://" check but not if the link is from a template, e.g. [[Special:AbuseLog/36540662]]. --Suffusion of Yellow 03:06 12 Dec 2023
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Filter last modified:	03:06, 12 December 2023 by Suffusion of Yellow (talk \| contribs)
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