To this end, in the current chapter we study scientific literature on vandalism in Wikipedia and the quality control mechanisms mentioned above in an attempt to determine the role of edit filters.
In the present chapter we study scientific literature on vandalism in Wikipedia and the quality control mechanisms applied to counteract this vandalism in order to better undersand the role of edit filters in this ecosystem.
There are works on vandalism in general/vandalism detection, as well as several articles dedicated to the role bots play in mainataining quality on Wikipedia (cite... ), a couple which discuss combating vandalism by means of semi-automated tools such as Huggle, Twinkle and STiki (cite).
Time and again, the literature refers also to more ``manual'' forms of quality control by editors using watchlists to keep an eye on articles they care about or even accidentially discovering edits made in bad faith.
There is one mechanism though that is very ostentatiously missing from all these reports: none of them ever mention (is this really true?) the edit filter mechanism.
