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<img src="images/editors-rise-decline.png" height="500" alt="Rise and decline in numbers of editors on EN Wikipedia">
<small>Source: Halfaker et al. "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline"</small>
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## Research questions
Q1: What is the role of edit filters among existing algorithmic quality-control
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## What is an edit filter
* MediaWiki extension
* regex based filtering of edits and other actions (e.g. account creation, page deletion or move, upload)
* triggers *before* an edit is published
* different actions can be defined
TODO: Screenshots?
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## Q1: What is the role of edit filters among existing algorithmic quality-control mechanisms on Wikipedia (bots, semi-automated tools, ORES, humans)?
* 1st mechanism activated to control quality (at the beginning of the funnel)
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* people fed up with bot introduction and development processes (poor quality, no tests, no
code available for revision in case of problems) (so came up with a new approach)
* filter allow more easily for collaboration
* disallow certain types of obvious pervasive (perhaps automated) vandalism directly
* takes more than a single click to revert
* human editors can use their time more productively elsewhere
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<img src="images/editors-rise-decline.png" height="500" alt="Rise and decline in numbers of editors on EN Wikipedia">
<small>Source: Halfaker et al. "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline"</small>
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# Motivation
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