Wiki source code of Protected Users
Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2026/08/14 18:41
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| 1 | Every AntiSpam operation that disables, cleans or deletes an account asks the same question first: is this a protected user? The answer is computed rather than kept as a single list, and an account is protected as soon as any of the following holds: | ||
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| 3 | * it is the guest user, which has no account to disable; | ||
| 4 | * it has Admin right on the wiki, or Admin right on the page being operated on; | ||
| 5 | * it is listed on ##AntiSpam.KnownUsers##; | ||
| 6 | * it belongs to a group listed on ##AntiSpam.KnownGroups##. | ||
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| 8 | Two entries count whether or not they are written down: the ##superadmin## user is always a known user, and ##XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup## is always a known group. | ||
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| 10 | Admin right on the **page** being operated on is enough, which is worth knowing because it makes protection contextual. An account that administers a single space is protected from every operation on that space's pages, so it can appear excluded in one cleaning result and be removed in another. | ||
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| 12 | Protection does not mean exemption from the keyword list. It means that trusted accounts are never destroyed: | ||
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| 14 | |=Feature|=Effect on a protected user | ||
| 15 | |Spam Checking|The save is still refused, but nothing is recorded against the account. | ||
| 16 | |Spam Cleaning|The account is not deleted and its revisions are not removed. The entry says why it was excluded. | ||
| 17 | |Inactive user deletion|The account is never listed, and the job filters it out a second time before deleting anything. | ||
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| 19 | The consequence worth planning for is the one that surprises administrators: an administrator who saves a page containing a spam keyword still has that save refused. Add a space to ##AntiSpam.Excludes## when a page legitimately needs to discuss the words on the keyword list. |
