Thanks all for the feedback! If anyone thinks of more, by all means send over.
> 1. One of the reasons why any suggestion that we make edit summaries compulsory is that as long as they are optional, blank edit summaries are a great way to identify vandals. This is a pretty interesting point. For further context, I'm asking because I'm mentoring a researcher who will be looking into edit summary usage and I wanted to make sure we weren't asking questions that had already been answered elsewhere. The research is still in the formative stages of figuring out what additional research might be useful and just having a better understanding of the distribution of edit types. When I think of tools / interventions based on what little I know, however, it's mainly along the lines of what sorts of edit tags (or similar filters) could be auto-generated to further contextualize edit summaries. Helping editors quickly match their edit to templated/canned messages is an idea that gets floated around too but could be counterproductive for the vandalism case as you point out. > There is a long-standing tool to search them at https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py?name=Stuartyeates&search=re-review&max=500&server=enwiki&ns=Wikipedia In case you're looking for code to reuse. Thanks! Glad to see this tool exists! For completeness, it was also pointed out to me that Wattenberg, Viégas, and Hollenbach's 2007 paper "Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms" makes heavy use of edit summaries and provides some insight into their usage: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-540-74800-7_23.pdf Best, Isaac On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 3:48 PM Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a long-standing tool to search them at > > > https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py?name=Stuartyeates&search=re-review&max=500&server=enwiki&ns=Wikipedia > > In case you're looking for code to reuse. > > cheers > stuart > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 05:38, WereSpielChequers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear Isaac, > > > > I'm not aware of any research on this. But there are a couple of common > > assumptions that you could check as part of any research. > > > > > > 1. One of the reasons why any suggestion that we make edit summaries > > compulsory is that as long as they are optional, blank edit summaries > are a > > great way to identify vandals. > > 2. There is also a certain amount of "sneaky vandalism" denoted by > edits > > that get reverted or reverted and the perpetrators get warned for > vandalism > > or blocked as a "vandalism only account" > > 3. Though we admins have the technology to blank people's edit > summaries > > it is very rarely used > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > Jonathan > > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 16:20, Isaac Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know of any research or statistics around edit summary > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary> usage on Wikipedia? > All > > > I > > > could find in a quick scan was some statistics from 2010 ( > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usage_of_edit_summary_on_Wikipedia). > I'm > > > curious if anyone has more updated statistics, or, even better: a more > > > thorough analysis of how edit summaries are used by editors -- i.e. how > > > complete they are, to what degree they represent the "what" vs. the > "why", > > > how often they are misleading, etc. > > > > > > Best, > > > Isaac > > > > > > -- > > > Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia > Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
