[Wikimedia-l] Has the underlying level of edits risen or fallen since the Edit Filters came in in 2009?

[Oliver Keyes]

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 at 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_filter>originally
> 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
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:42:22 +0100
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> On 28/08/2013, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at 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
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