+Analytics who might be able to help with how reverts / Abuse Filter / etc.
figure into edit counts

In addition to the links from HaeB, I would also suggest reading the recent
report on content moderation on wikis, which on top of interviews has some
quantitative analyses and additional methods for understanding reverts:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_content_moderation_on_English_Wikipedia

Best,
Isaac

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:25 PM Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Concerning 1) and about analyzing reverts in general, see
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revert .
>
> To explore 5), https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AbuseFilter and
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/ptwikis/Filters:enwiki may be of interest.
>
> Regards, HaeB
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:01 PM Su-Laine Brodsky <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I’m looking for statistics about the edits that are reverted on the
> > English Wikipedia. This is for purposes of explaining to the public what
> > Wikipedia’s quality control processes are like. If hard numbers aren’t
> > available, I’m also interested in educated guesstimates.
> >
> > 1) An often-quoted statistic is that 7% of edits are reverted. Is this
> > still believed to be true?
> >
> > 2) According to
> > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/19/scoring-platform-team/, 2.5% of
> > edits are vandalism. There are other common reasons for reverting, and
> I’m
> > wondering if anyone has studied their frequency. Does anyone know what
> > percentage of all edits are reverted for being:
> > a) Spam (as perceived by the reverter)
> > b) Copyright violation
> > c) Violations of the Biographies of Living Persons policy
> >
> > 3) Do statistics on the number of edits per day on the English Wikipedia
> > (i.e. 164,000 edits per day) include edits that are blocked by the spam
> > blacklists or by edit filters?
> >
> > 4) How many edits per day on the English Wikiepdia are prevented
> (blocked)
> > by the spam blacklists?
> >
> > 5) How many edits per day on the English Wikiepdia are prevented by the
> > edit filters?
> >
> > 6) What percentage of all reverts are made by users of Huggle and Stiki?
> >
> > 7) What proportion of vandalism is quickly reverted? A 2007 study
> > (Priedhorsky et al) found that 42% of vandalistic contributions are
> > repaired within one view and 70% within ten views - have any newer
> studies
> > been done on this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Su-Laine
> > Vancouver, BC
> >
> >
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