diff --git a/memos/memo-maintenance b/memos/memo-maintenance new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1999f71e0e2148ec30cab420aaadc159e957734b --- /dev/null +++ b/memos/memo-maintenance @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Filters with maintenance purpose + +Some of the encountered edit filters on the EN Wikipedia were targeting neither vandalism nor good faith edits. +These had rather their focus on (semi-)automating routine (clean up) tasks. + +Some of the filters I labeled as "maintenance" were for instance recording cases of broken syntax caused by a faulty browser extention. (filter id!) +Others were targeting bugs such as.. + +577 -> "VisualEditor bugs: Strange icons" +345 -> "Extraneous formatting from browser extension" +313 -> "Skype Toolbar Formatting" +199 -> "Unflagged Bots" +505 -> "Tag mobile edits" +728 -> "Huggle" +209 -> "arwiki interwiki problem" + +The maintenance parent category differs conceptually from the other 2 in so far that filters in it don't target particular **intents** of the editors whose edits are triggering the filter, but rather "side"-occurances that mostly went wrong. + +## Bugs + +There are some 10 or so filters I manually labeled as targeting "bugs". +Most of them do log only.