diff --git a/thesis/2-Background.tex b/thesis/2-Background.tex
index f1e1d91a8fd6b8ca7db96ce9e034eef014c0b7b3..dcd6f2112e25c71dbc9bcc0ec4ed3550ad8892bf 100644
--- a/thesis/2-Background.tex
+++ b/thesis/2-Background.tex
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ But first, chapter~\ref{chap:methods} introduces the applied methodology.
 \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 frame}~\label{fig:funnel-no-filters}
+  \caption{State of the scientific literature: edit filters are missing from the quality control ecosystem}~\label{fig:funnel-no-filters}
 \end{figure}
 
 %TODO check which entries actually result from the text!!
diff --git a/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex b/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex
index a1d6feca987cdee09aff69b0fc47c1e14480ef47..2ddb1540ce10f45747aaa3b29d9fdd45a7e6c948 100644
--- a/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex
+++ b/thesis/4-Edit-Filters.tex
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Messy edits were done and others took them and re-modelled them.
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/editors-development.png}
-    \caption{EN Wikipedia: Editors over the years (source: \url{https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/})}~\label{fig:editors-development}
+    \caption{EN Wikipedia: Number of editors over the years (source: \url{https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/})}~\label{fig:editors-development}
 \end{figure}
 
 \begin{figure}
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ 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 frame}~\label{fig:funnel-with-filters}
+  \caption{Edit filters' role in the quality control ecosystem}~\label{fig:funnel-with-filters}
 \end{figure}
 
 \begin{comment}
diff --git a/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex b/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex
index da4d7b685c21de942dc7debb8d821ce956a64fb9..7e452d85da2188de43d44cfa717ea595fa8d3b52 100644
--- a/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex
+++ b/thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ It seems that above all editors tripping filters are on vacation.
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/filter-hits-zoomed.png}
-  \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Number of hits per month}~\label{fig:filter-hits}
+  \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Hits per month}~\label{fig:filter-hits}
 \end{figure}
 \end{landscape}
 
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ or that there wasn't a general surge in vandalism around this time.
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/reverts.png}
-  \caption{EN Wikipedia: Revert number for the period July 2001–April 2017}~\label{fig:reverts}
+  \caption{EN Wikipedia: Reverts for July 2001–April 2017}~\label{fig:reverts}
 \end{figure}
 
 \textbf{There was a change in the edit filter software that allowed more filters to be activated, or a bug that caused false positives}\\
@@ -437,13 +437,13 @@ In general, the pages on which filters are triggered seem more like a randomly s
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/patterns-filterhits-actions.png}
-  \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Number of hits per month according to filter action}~\label{fig:filter-hits-actions}
+  \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Hits per month according to filter action}~\label{fig:filter-hits-actions}
 \end{figure}
 
 \begin{figure}
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{pics/patterns-filterhits-editor-actions.png}
-  \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Number of hits per month according to triggering editor's action}~\label{fig:filter-hits-editors-actions}
+  \caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Hits per month according to triggering editor's action}~\label{fig:filter-hits-editors-actions}
 \end{figure}
 
 \subsection{Most active filters of all times}