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 sub

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 wrote: > Marc, > > It isn't just the vandalism and reversion of vandalism that we've lost as a > result of the edit filters (originally kn

[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 its