[Wikimedia-l] effect of edit filter on editing levels, (was thanking anons)

2014-01-15 Thread WereSpielChequers
Marc, It isn't just the vandalism and reversion of vandalism that we've lost as a result of the edit filters (originally known as abuse filters) there is also the lost userpage warnings, AIV reports, block messages and removal of AIV reports:) But yes the majority would have been vandalism and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] effect of edit filter on editing levels, (was thanking anons)

2014-01-15 Thread Oliver Keyes
Actually, yes, we do; Aaron Halfaker did a lot of work quantifying and defining 'man-hours' in a Wikipedia sense. On 15 January 2014 10:15, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote: Marc, It isn't just the vandalism and reversion of vandalism that we've lost as a result of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] effect of edit filter on editing levels, (was thanking anons)

2014-01-15 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 01/15/2014 01:15 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: Of course there remains the issue that our audience is still growing faster than the Internet whilst nobody really knows whether the underlying rate of goodfaith editing is increasing or stable. My own eyeball metric on this is entirely