Adam,

there's a related proposal to expose logs and build real-time visualizations of all server-side events emitted by MW, I'm copying Ori as he may be able to give you some pointers/updates.

Keep in mind that merge conflicts may not answer questions related to (post-edit) reverts or edit wars. 

Dario

On Aug 8, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Adam Wight <awight@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Dear comrades,

I'm hoping to provide a data stream and archival data for edit conflict events on *.wikipedias.  The short-term goal is to help support further research into heuristic reconstruction of the article revision graph, see this paper presented by Jianmin Wu (author CC'ed here):
http://opensym.org/wsos2013/proceedings/p0204-wu.pdf

The only marker I have found so far is, unfortunately, a message emitted using wfDebug.  Do we have an archive of production debug logs, and what is the process I would follow for proposing a historical experiment or an ongoing filter using this data?

For anyone who's curious, I think the main string I'm looking for is "Keeping edit conflict, failed merge.", but it would be worthwhile to analyze logging from every code path within conflict resolution.
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