Last modified: 2013-08-03 13:02:37 UTC
I am dealing with a constant wave of abuse from a user who creates a new account with random names but the same email address. It would be great if the AF variables included, especially for the createaccount action, an user_email for filtering action. This is the email address the user enters for creating their account, not the text of any email's they are sending.
I'm not sure how much of a good idea exposing a users email addresses is. Especially as if there is a filter hit, it will be a logged value and viewable..
We (the admins of our wiki) had a long discussion about this. We'd like to expand our request to include a variable (e.g. $wgAbuseFilterUseEmailAddress) defaulted to false which controls the use of the email address as a variable. False means no variable, true means there is. From the perspective of our wiki, the Abuse Log is visible only to sysops which is a small group trusted not to abuse the availability of the email address. But we understand that on a larger wiki the viewership of the abuse log and the expectations of privacy are different.
*** Bug 52480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
