Extension talk:AutoModerator

Moderating old posts from Extension:Moderation

I used Extension:Moderation in order to queue incoming posts to my site. I despaired to moderate manually and I get a huge backlog of unmoderated posts in my now half-defunct due to missing moderation site.

Now I want to switch to AutoModerator.

How can I make AutoModerator not only moderate new posts, but also to pass through all queued posts after I install it? Then I want to publish all queued posts that passed moderation.

If you don't have (Do you have or not?) this feature, please add it. VictorPorton (talk) 05:54, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@VictorPorton Thanks for the suggestion - apologies for not seeing this until now. I think this is a good idea, but we don't have this feature and I don't expect that my team will work on it in the near future. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:27, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

AI Filtering - a (bad) choice

While I understand the Hype about AI, why do we need to make it possible for vandals to generate a flood of Edits that are not even there own? AutoMod would need to run against the Paradigm for bots (as it is, in a sense a bot, even through it will be considered an extention)

When triggered correctly, a few edits from an trolling account can ban the use of the word e.g. 'the' and then automod will destroy whatever the community wants to write.

don't come me with safeguards that will prevent this. there are people that are willing to test this out. and there is no safeguard against humanities worst. Itself. Lyyri (talk) 06:56, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

@Lyyri Thanks for sharing your concern. The models that Automoderator currently uses have been trained on a corpus of existing edits which have already been reverted by the community. Although we are considering adding a feature to train the model on an ongoing basis based on the false positive reverts of Automoderator that we're seeing, this is not currently implemented. As I understand it, the scenario you described above cannot currently happen - vandal behaviour on wiki today will not affect which edits Automoderator chooses to revert. I think the potential for abuse is a good thing to keep in mind if we pursue the idea of automated re-training, however, so I appreciate you bringing it up. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Current AutoModerators

Can there be, or is there already, a list of AutoModerator accounts currently in use?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:06, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding I can see how that would be helpful! I've created a table. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 15:35, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

name of the extension

What is the name of the extension : AutoModerator or Automoderator ? It seems to be the first one (according to github page or according to this page Versi - Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas) but on mediawiki.org both are used (for example on this page : Moderator_Tools/Automoderator the second one is mainly used. But on this page: Extension:AutoModerator/Deploying the first one is mainly used). Maybe it would be great to have only one script. Mahabarata73 (talk) 12:58, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

@Mahabarata73 Good question :) The project, and how the tool is referred to generally, is 'Automoderator', but the extension itself is officially called 'AutoModerator'. This wasn't an intentional choice. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 16:53, 11 December 2024 (UTC)