• Bug 20769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

In response to Brion at bug 20769 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20769#c1

Andrew, is this safe to do or do we need to keep that more restricted? Any
alternatives that are safer?

This is perfectly safe, it's just the same right that administrators can self-assign by giving themselves the abusefilter group.

Yes it is "safe", but having to self assign the right might make some more careful about how they use it, to encourage them to request a filter rather than rolling their own. And make no mistake, filers are one of the most powerful tools around.

Rich, this is for /viewing/, not editing filters. The whole point is to allow admins (like me) who don't edit much to still be able to view without polluting Special:Listusers/AbuseFilterEditors with a bunch of admins who don't actually edit it.

Admins need frequently to view private filters for example when handling AIV reports based on abuse filters, especially those from Mr.Z-bot. This way, admins won't need the filter editor rights to see them.

Ah, xenocidic, I stand corrected. In that case it seems eminently sensible.

I think enabling this right per-project is a waste of time. Just do it globally. Nobody is going to object to admin viewing of AbuseFilter filters, surely.

(In reply to comment #7)

I think enabling this right per-project is a waste of time. Just do it
globally. Nobody is going to object to admin viewing of AbuseFilter filters,
surely.

Done for enwiki, stayed out of the rest of the wikis' configs for now.

Mass-unassigning shell bugs from myself to Rob; I used to do them once, but I
don't have time for them any more.

I am not going to assign this to all wikis, when it was originally a request for a single project, and no other projects are asking for it.

The original request was fufilled, closing ticket.