* an ethnographic analysis as a part of the present work is not possible; (cs perspective, limited time)
* Disclaimer on limitations: there was only one person who manually tagged the filters according to their purpose; this has following limitations: ...; (Claudia promises to tag a second time if we submit a paper to the CHI;)
This work presents a first attempt at analysing Wikipedia's edit filter system.
It has several limitations (we could think of).
First, it focuses on English Wikipedia only.
We are convinced that there are valuable lessons to be learnt (about the communities, usefulness of filters, ..) from comparing edit filter use across different language versions.
Second, unfortunately, including an ethnographic analysis was not possible.
This is partially due to the fact that we employ a computer science perspective on the question and partially due to limited time.
Third, the manual filter classification was undertaken by one person only, so biases of this person have certainly shaped the labels.
