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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. It may also tag the edit summary, warn the editors, revoke their autoconfirmed status, and/or disallow the edit entirely. [2]
Robots.txt is a well known file for search engine optimization and protection against Google dorking. It involves the use of robots.txt to disallow everything or specific endpoints (hackers can still search robots.txt for endpoints) which prevents Google bots from crawling sensitive endpoints such as admin panels.
MediaWiki:Robots.txt provides the Robots.txt file for English Wikipedia, telling search engines not to index the specified pages. See the documentation of {{}} for a survey of noindexing methods.
Despite the use of the terms allow and disallow, the protocol is purely advisory and relies on the compliance of the web robot; it cannot enforce any of what is stated in the file. [ 25 ] Malicious web robots are unlikely to honor robots.txt; some may even use the robots.txt as a guide to find disallowed links and go straight to them.
Finally, after you have performed extensive testing and are certain that the filter will not cause mass unexpected disruption or flood the edit filter log with erroneous entries and actions, you can fully enable your filter by adding a warning, disallow action, or tag.
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Notifications (commonly called pinging, formerly known as Echo) is a system designed to inform users about new activity on Wikipedia in a unified way.It provides notifications to users for a number of events related to their account, including new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links.
If a filter is set to warn and disallow, then a user clicking "Save page" will alternatively see that warning and standard disallowed message. References ^ For information on this slow behavior, see ReDoS and Regular expression § Implementations and running times .