Hi Fae,
I hadn't factored in the spam filter,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam_blacklist that's a separate process that just focusses on sites which we don't want more links to - presumably because people have tried spamlinking them on wikipedia. The edit filter,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_filteroriginally known as the abuse filter is more complex and among other uses doesn't allow certain types of edits.. Both are generally deployed but can be tailored per wiki, I'm assuming that the edit filter is more heavily tuned by language, not least because a rude word in one language will often have innocuous meanings in another. Hence my question here, I am hoping for cross wiki input as this won't just be an EN wiki issue but some others may have very different experiences with them and may even have found a way to measure their effect
Hope those links give the info you requested.
Regards
WSC
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:42:22 +0100 From: Fæ faewik@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Has the underlying level of edits risen or fallen since the Edit Filters came in in 2009? Message-ID: CAH7nnD0tACeBcE77mBZ1JQqar78=w+SB-SD-z-_GKr_32bws-w@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 28/08/2013, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone come up with a formulae for the ratio between vandalism prevented by the edit filters and lost edits on Wiki?
...
Regards
Hi WSC,
Could you link to where there is a definition of what the edit filters are and what they are supposed to do? I recall having problems including urls like youtube, but I'm not sure if that blacklist is the same thing. If this was something only implemented on the English Wikipedia project, it might be more relevant to raise on wikien-l.
Cheers, Fae
I can't speak for edit volume, but in my spare time I did some research around blocks and found that the proportionate decline in bad-faith related blocks since 2009 is (quite possibly) edit-filter linked.[1] So, whether there's a causal link between the edit decrease and the edit filters or not, they do appear to be doing good work.
[1] 0.63 modified R2 value
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Fae,
I hadn't factored in the spam filter,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam_blacklist that's a separate process that just focusses on sites which we don't want more links to - presumably because people have tried spamlinking them on wikipedia. The edit filter,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_filteroriginally known as the abuse filter is more complex and among other uses doesn't allow certain types of edits.. Both are generally deployed but can be tailored per wiki, I'm assuming that the edit filter is more heavily tuned by language, not least because a rude word in one language will often have innocuous meanings in another. Hence my question here, I am hoping for cross wiki input as this won't just be an EN wiki issue but some others may have very different experiences with them and may even have found a way to measure their effect
Hope those links give the info you requested.
Regards
WSC
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:42:22 +0100 From: Fæ faewik@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Has the underlying level of edits risen or fallen since the Edit Filters came in in 2009? Message-ID: <CAH7nnD0tACeBcE77mBZ1JQqar78= w+SB-SD-z-_GKr_32bws-w@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 28/08/2013, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone come up with a formulae for the ratio between vandalism prevented by the edit filters and lost edits on Wiki?
...
Regards
Hi WSC,
Could you link to where there is a definition of what the edit filters are and what they are supposed to do? I recall having problems including urls like youtube, but I'm not sure if that blacklist is the same thing. If this was something only implemented on the English Wikipedia project, it might be more relevant to raise on wikien-l.
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