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*TL;DR*

Today (March 28) 13:00 UTC, the New filters for edit review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review beta option will be released on the Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias, and also on Mediawikiwiki.

This beta option adds an improved filtering interface and powerful filtering and other tools to the Recent Changes page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges (and Recent Changes Linked https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked).

On wikis where the machine-learning service ORES is enabled https://meta.wikipedia.org/Wiki/ORES, the project introduces two filter groups—Contribution Quality and User Intent—that offer probabilistic predictions about, respectively, whether or not edits are likely to contain problems and whether the users who made them were acting in good faith.

*What is this new feature?*

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges and Special: RecentChangesLinked https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked by adding new useful features that will ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

- *Filtering https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering* - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations. - *Highlighting* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting_function - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring, to quickly identify the ones that matter to you. - *Quality and Intent Filters* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters - user ORES predictions to identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need assistance.

You can watch a video https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANew-feature_demo%E2%80%94smart_Recent_Changes_filtering_with_ORES.webm which explains the principle of filtering and highlighting, based on the prototype.

*What will happen?*

At the moment, the ORES beta feature is available in Beta preferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures on certain wikis.

For those wikis, when the deployment will be done:

- Users who have enabled the ORES beta feature will then use the New filters for Recent Changes Beta feature (no action needed, unless if you want to opt-out). - ORES predictions highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool will be activated by default for all users (not in Beta anymore). - ORES redirections are symbolized by a "r" red (in English at least) in the RecentChanges pages for all users, like minor edits or not autopatrolled edits. - Users who want to change the accuracy level of ORES predictions will be able to do so in their preferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal . - Users who want to change or hide the ORES predictions tags will be able to do so in their personal stylesheets https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/FAQ (via CSS).

If your wiki doesn't have ORES predictions highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool, the filters will work anyway. However, the predictions filters will not be available until the process to enable ORES predictions is completed for your wiki. The deployment is not scheduled https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158335at the moment for wikis without ORES predictions but will happen soon -- however, MediaWiki wiki is deployed today, as the first of them.

*How to prepare this change?*

You can discover the purpose of this project by visiting the quick tour help page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quick_tour .

Also, please check the documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review (and help to translate it). Please also have a look at the translations of the interface on translatewiki.net. The messages are prefixed as rcfilters-and ores-rcfilters-.

The next phase https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158332 is the deployment of the new filters (as a Beta) on Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech Wikipedias and Wikidata, scheduled for April 11. I've already contacted these communities.

The feedback page is open https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review to your comments. Please ping me if you have any questions.

On behalf of the Collaboration team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration, Benoît