@@ -130,17 +130,15 @@ The edit filter managers group is quite stable, with only 4 users who have becom
Since the edit filter helper group has been created in September 2017, only 11 users have been granted the corresponding permissions and only one of them has been subsequently ``promoted'' to become an edit filter manager.
(Interestingly, currently (July 2019) there are 19 people in the edit filter helpers group, so apparently some of them have received the right although no records are there on the noticeboard??)
Moreover, quite some of the 154 edit filter managers on English Wikipedia have a kind of ``not active at the moment'' banner on their user page.
How many new editors have gotten the permission in recent time?
Otherwise the group is apparently aging..
Moreover, quite some of the 154 edit filter managers on English Wikipedia have a kind of ``not active at the moment'' banner on their user page, which leads to the conclusion that the edit filter managers group is aging.
% Stable? How many new users have become part of it over time?
% Has it been the same people from the very beginning?
% What type of work do the different managers take over?
There are a couple of very active managers who seem to keep an overview over all filters and do maintenance work on them e.g. updating conditions to optimise evaluation or updating (syn!) deprecated variable names upon updates (syn!) of the extension's code.
%TODO Do edit filter managers specialize on particular types of filters (e.g. vandalism vs good faith?)
Further interesting questions come to mind such as whether there are edit filter managers who specialise in creating different types of edit filters (compare manual classification).
However, in order to be able to answer this, an access to the whole \emph{abuse\_filter\_history} table is needed, so this remains a question (syn!) for future inquiry.
