From 6e040a941eae50748682ee6c2629b5c0df0b5910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 22:04:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Refine existing memos --- memos/memo-good-faith | 2 +- memos/memo-vandalism | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/memos/memo-good-faith b/memos/memo-good-faith index 175d3e5..e423e5d 100644 --- a/memos/memo-good-faith +++ b/memos/memo-good-faith @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Some of the filters in the "good faith" category target (public comment of the f - test edits - misplaced "#redirect" in articles - moves to or from Module namespace -- Adding emoji unicode characters +- Adding emoji unicode characters // although, I recently checked this one, and in the majority of cases these are vandalism edits - Large creations by inexperienced users - creation of a new article without any categories - new user removing references diff --git a/memos/memo-vandalism b/memos/memo-vandalism index 57e4f3a..a2cb39a 100644 --- a/memos/memo-vandalism +++ b/memos/memo-vandalism @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Although this clashes with the overall *transparency* of the project (is there a There are also private filters targetting personal attack or abuse cases. Here, filters are private in order to protect affected person(s). +The current state is also an "improvement" compared to the initially proposed visibility level of edit filters. +In the initial version of the EditFilters Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Edit_filter&oldid=221158142) Andrew Garrett (User:Werdna), the author of the AbuseFilter MediaWiki extention, was suggesting that all filters should be private and only a group of previously approved users should be able to view them. + According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism following (mostly disruptive) behaviours are **not vandalism**: - boldly editing - copyright violation -- GitLab