https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70349

--- Comment #9 from MusikAnimal <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Dan Garry from comment #7)
> I'm not sure this is as much of a problem as it seems. I took at the last 15
> edits made from the app that used canned edit summaries, and only two of
> them misused them.
> 
> Anyway, I'm sorry if you're having to slightly adjust your anti-vandalism
> patterns, but we're not considering tagging the edits at this time. The
> standard format of the canned edit summary is easy enough to spot if you
> want to look out for them, and you can always use the "mobile app edit" tag
> to give special scrutiny to app edits if you must.

There's many, many patrollers out there, and new ones recruited regularly. It's
not going to be easy to train them that a mobile edit with a "Fixed typo" edit
summary should not be interpreted as such. It's perfectly understandable why
they'd think the user is trying to be deceiving, and that's just not fair to
the user – or the patrollers. Again, I can create an edit filter to look for
mobile edits with the known canned edit summaries and tag them as such, but
this is unnecessarily taxing the system. It's also fragile as it'd have to be
updated when the canned edit summary list is updated.

Could we at the very least move "fixed typo" further down the list? I think
having "added content" as the first option is not only going to help alleviate
the overall issue, but it is also probably more commonly accurate. E.g. I see
new content added more than typos being fixed. If I could get confirmation that
this change will or will not happen, that'd be appreciated, so that I know
whether or not to move forward the edit filter implementation at en-wikipedia.

Thanks

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