diff --git a/article/proceedings.tex b/article/proceedings.tex index f11779939fded13c3431de1fe73fa40a23e1d4e8..a3f4a8fb6cade516c22559c690e8423c65f0272a 100644 --- a/article/proceedings.tex +++ b/article/proceedings.tex @@ -415,9 +415,18 @@ Distinction filters/Bots: what tasks are handled by bots and what by filters (an \section{Impact on editors} -What happens when an editor triggers an edit filter? - -(Interesting side note: editing via TOR is disallowed: "Your IP has been recognised as a TOR exit node. We disallow this to prevent abuse" or similar, check again for wording. Compare: "Users of the Tor anonymity network will show the IP address of a Tor "exit node". Lists of known Tor exit nodes are available from the Tor Project's Tor Bulk Exit List exporting tool." \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism}) +What happens when an editor triggers an edit filter? Do they notice this at all? + +As described in the previous section, a variety of different actions may occur when a filter gets tripped. +These include: disallow, warn, tag, throttle, log.. +For the more severe ones, the editor is notified that they hit a filter: +a warning message is displayed if the filter action was set to disallow/warn. +These warnings describe the problem that occurred and present the editor with possible actions: +complain on the FalsePositives page (link!) in case of a disallow, +or, complain on the FalsePositives page and publish the change anyway in case of a warning. +On the other hand, when the filter action is set to "tag" or "log" only, the editor doesn't really notice they tripped a filter unless they are looking more closely. +Tagged edits are marked as such in the page's revision history (see screenshot) +and all edits that trigger an edit filter are listed in the AbuseLog (link) (see screenshot). If the filter is set to disallow, a specific template is shown to the editor: "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, so it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error. Disruptive editing may result in a block from editing." "report this error" links to the FalsePositives page: \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives} @@ -427,6 +436,9 @@ The edit is not saved. So far, I haven't managed to trigger a filter with a different action. +\subsection{TOR} +(Interesting side note: editing via TOR is disallowed: "Your IP has been recognised as a TOR exit node. We disallow this to prevent abuse" or similar, check again for wording. Compare: "Users of the Tor anonymity network will show the IP address of a Tor "exit node". Lists of known Tor exit nodes are available from the Tor Project's Tor Bulk Exit List exporting tool." \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism}) + \section{Edit filters on the English Wikipedia: State of the art}