I can't speak for edit volume, but in my spare time I did some research around blocks and found that the proportionate decline in bad-faith related blocks since 2009 is (quite possibly) edit-filter linked.[1] So, whether there's a causal link between the edit decrease and the edit filters or not, they do appear to be doing good work.
[1] 0.63 modified R2 value On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM, WereSpielChequers < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fae, > > I hadn't factored in the spam > filter,<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam_blacklist> that's > a separate process that just focusses on sites which we don't want more > links to - presumably because people have tried spamlinking them on > wikipedia. The edit > filter,<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_filter>originally > known as the abuse filter is more complex and among other uses > doesn't allow certain types of edits.. Both are generally deployed but can > be tailored per wiki, I'm assuming that the edit filter is more heavily > tuned by language, not least because a rude word in one language will often > have innocuous meanings in another. Hence my question here, I am hoping for > cross wiki input as this won't just be an EN wiki issue but some others may > have very different experiences with them and may even have found a way to > measure their effect > > Hope those links give the info you requested. > > Regards > > WSC > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:42:22 +0100 > From: Fæ <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Has the underlying level of edits risen or > fallen since the Edit Filters came in in 2009? > Message-ID: > <CAH7nnD0tACeBcE77mBZ1JQqar78= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 28/08/2013, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone come up with a formulae for the ratio between vandalism > > prevented by the edit filters and lost edits on Wiki? > ... > > Regards > > Hi WSC, > > Could you link to where there is a definition of what the edit filters > are and what they are supposed to do? I recall having problems > including urls like youtube, but I'm not sure if that blacklist is the > same thing. If this was something only implemented on the English > Wikipedia project, it might be more relevant to raise on wikien-l. > > Cheers, > Fae > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
