diff --git a/thesis/2-Background.tex b/thesis/2-Background.tex index 1cc0f93a91b44a0f920b17f6bdc81f739bac753b..503511a792f740c6eb743bf107eb99849c46836e 100644 --- a/thesis/2-Background.tex +++ b/thesis/2-Background.tex @@ -213,11 +213,13 @@ In order to uncover this, various Wikipedia's pages, among other things policies But first, chapter~\ref{chap:methods} introduces the applied methodology. %TODO is it better to introduce the graphic earlier? and make landscape? +\begin{landscape} \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/funnel-no-filters.png} \caption{State of the scientific literature: edit filters are missing from the quality control ecosystem}~\label{fig:funnel-no-filters} \end{figure} +\end{landscape} %TODO check which entries actually result from the text!! % and get rid of the empty page that follows diff --git a/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex b/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex index be7bc281f7587ccea52934f6be6457c08a3951ab..01f46c1ce70588aa653a81170030443151021a17 100644 --- a/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex +++ b/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ So what happens when an editor's action matches the pattern of an edit filter? D As described section~\ref{sec:mediawiki-ext}, a variety of different actions may occur when a filter's pattern matches. Of these, only \emph{tag}, \emph{throttle}, \emph{warn}, and \emph{disallow} seem to be used today (and \emph{log}, which is always enabled). -If a filter is set to \emph{warn} or \emph{disallow}, the editor is notified that they hit a filter by a warning message (see figure~\ref{fig:screenshot-warn-disallow}). +If a filter is set to \emph{warn} or \emph{disallow}, the editor is notified that they hit a filter by a warning message (see figure~\ref{fig:screenshot-warn}). These warnings describe the problem that occurred and present the editor with possible paths of action: complain on the False Positives page~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilterFalsePositives} in case of \emph{disallow} (the edit is not saved), or, complain on the False Positives page @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ Edit filter managers use actual false positives to improve the filters, give adv } and publish the change anyway in case of \emph{warn}. (Of course, in case of a warning, the editor can modify their edit before publishing it.) +Possible alternative paths of action an editor may wish to consult are also listed. On the other hand, when the filter action is set to \emph{tag} or \emph{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 for example (see figure~\ref{fig:tags-in-history}) and all edits that trigger an edit filter are listed in the Abuse Log~\cite{Wikipedia:AbuseLog} (see figure~\ref{fig:screenshot-abuse-log}). @@ -319,20 +320,20 @@ and all edits that trigger an edit filter are listed in the Abuse Log~\cite{Wiki \begin{figure}[t] \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/screenshots-filter-trigger/Screenshot-tags-in-revision-history.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/screenshots-filter-trigger/Screenshot-tags-in-revision-history.png} \caption{Tagged edits are marked as such in a page's revision history}~\label{fig:tags-in-history} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/screenshots-filter-trigger/Screenshot-abuse-log.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/screenshots-filter-trigger/Screenshot-abuse-log.png} \caption{Abuse Log showing all filter matches by User:Schnuppi4223}~\label{fig:screenshot-abuse-log} \end{figure} \begin{figure}[t] \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/screenshots-filter-trigger/Screenshot-trigger-warning-filter.png} - \caption{Editor gets notified their edit matched multiple edit filters}~\label{fig:screenshot-warn-disallow} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/screenshots-filter-trigger/Screenshot-warning-page-blank.png} + \caption[Editor gets two warnings upon erasing an entire page]{Editor gets two warnings upon erasing an entire page: one for page blanking and another one for removing all categories from an article. The warnings list possible pages the editor may want to consult and actions they can take.}~\label{fig:screenshot-warn} \end{figure} @@ -372,13 +373,13 @@ As shown elsewhere~\cite{HalGeiMorRied2013}, this shift had a lot of repercussio \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/editors-development-total.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/editors-development-total.png} \caption[EN Wikipedia: Number of editors over the years]{EN Wikipedia: Number of editors over the years (source: \url{https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/})}~\label{fig:editors-development} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/edits-development-total.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/edits-development-total.png} \caption[EN Wikipedia: Number of edits over the years]{EN Wikipedia: Number of edits over the years (source: \url{https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/})}~\label{fig:edits-development} \end{figure} @@ -565,7 +566,7 @@ and conclude that claims of the literature (see section~\ref{section:bots}) shou \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/funnel-with-filters.png} - \caption{Edit filters' role in the quality control ecosystem}~\label{fig:funnel-with-filters} + \caption[Edit filters' role in the quality control ecosystem]{Edit filters' role in the quality control ecosystem: They are the first mechanism to get active.}~\label{fig:funnel-with-filters} \end{figure} \end{landscape} diff --git a/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex b/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex index 669028f5174ec1dffdc18dded7427e5f2a73cb94..a1931ee2749a099405717411c2e02eeed624488e 100644 --- a/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex +++ b/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ The relative proportion of these groups to each other can be viewed on figure~\r \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/general-stats-donut.png} - \caption{There are 954 edit filters on EN Wikipedia}~\label{fig:general-stats} + \caption[Overview of active, disabled and deleted filters on EN Wikipedia]{There are 954 edit filters on EN Wikipedia: roughly 21\% of them are active, 16\% are disabled, and 63\% are deleted}~\label{fig:general-stats} \end{figure} \subsection{Public and Hidden Filters} @@ -203,19 +203,19 @@ A lot of public filters on the other hand still assume good faith from the edito \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/all-active-filters-actions.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/all-active-filters-actions.png} \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Filters actions for all filters}~\label{fig:all-active-filters-actions} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/active-public-actions-big.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/active-public-actions-big.png} \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Filters actions for enabled public filters}~\label{fig:active-public-actions} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/active-hidden-actions-big.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/active-hidden-actions-big.png} \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Filters actions for enabled hidden filters}~\label{fig:active-hidden-actions} \end{figure} @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ The detailed distribution of manually assigned codes and their parent categories \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/manual-tags-distribution-t20b.png} - \caption{Edit filters manual tag distribution}~\label{fig:manual-tags} + \caption{Edit filters manual tags distribution}~\label{fig:manual-tags} \end{figure} \end{landscape} @@ -292,12 +292,12 @@ This changed around the end of 2012 and since then the most hits are marked by v \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/filter-hits-manual-tags.png} - \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Hits per month}~\label{fig:filter-hits-manual-tags} + \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Hits per month according to manual tags}~\label{fig:filter-hits-manual-tags} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \centering - \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/reverts.png} + \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{pics/reverts.png} \caption{EN Wikipedia: Reverts for July 2001–April 2017}~\label{fig:reverts} \end{figure}