There is a long-standing tool to search them at
https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py?name=Stuartyeates&search=re-reviā¦
In case you're looking for code to reuse.
cheers
stuart
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 05:38, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Isaac,
>
> I'm not aware of any research on this. But there are a couple of common
> assumptions that you could check as part of any research.
>
>
> 1. One of the reasons why any suggestion that we make edit summaries
> compulsory is that as long as they are optional, blank edit summaries are a
> great way to identify vandals.
> 2. There is also a certain amount of "sneaky vandalism" denoted by
edits
> that get reverted or reverted and the perpetrators get warned for vandalism
> or blocked as a "vandalism only account"
> 3. Though we admins have the technology to blank people's edit summaries
> it is very rarely used
>
>
>
>
> Regards
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 16:20, Isaac Johnson <isaac(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any research or statistics around edit summary
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary> usage on Wikipedia? All
> > I
> > could find in a quick scan was some statistics from 2010 (
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usage_of_edit_summary_on_Wikipedia). I'm
> > curious if anyone has more updated statistics, or, even better: a more
> > thorough analysis of how edit summaries are used by editors -- i.e. how
> > complete they are, to what degree they represent the "what" vs. the
"why",
> > how often they are misleading, etc.
> >
> > Best,
> > Isaac
> >
> > --
> > Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
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