@@ -302,6 +302,17 @@ There are a couple of very active managers who seem to keep an overview over all
Further interesting questions come to mind such as whether there are edit filter managers who specialise in creating different types of edit filters (compare manual classification).
However, in order to be able to answer this, an access to the whole \emph{abuse\_filter\_history} table is needed, so this remains a question (syn!) for future inquiry.
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Only edit filter editors (who have the \emph{abusefilter-modify} permission) and editors with the \emph{abusefilter-view-private} permission can view hidden filters.
The latter is given to edit filter helpers–editors interested in helping with edit filters who still do not meet certain criteria in order to be granted the full \emph{abusefilter-modify} permission, editors working with edit filters on other wikis interested in learning from the filter system on English Wikipedia, and Sockpuppet investigation clerks~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilterHelper}.
As of March 17, 2019, there are 16 edit filter helpers on EN Wikipedia~\footnote{\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/abusefilter-helper}}.
Also, all administrators are able to view hidden filters.
There is also a designated mailing list for discussing these.
It is specifically indicated that this is the communication channel to be used when dealing with harassment (by means of edit filters)~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilter}.
Furthermore, it is signaled, that the mailing list is meant for sensitive cases only and all general discussions should be held on-wiki~\cite{Wikipedia:EditFilter}.
@@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ Here, a comprehensive list of all these pointers for possible future studies is
An evaluation of the usefulness and success of the mechanism at this task would be really interesting.
\item\textbf{When an editor (edit filter manager who is also a bot operator) will implement a bot and when a filter} - ethnographic inquiry
\item\textbf{Repercussions on affected editors}: What are the consequences of edit filters on editors whose edits are filtered? Frustration? Allienation? Do they understand what is going on? Or are for example edit filter warnings helpful and the editors appreciate the hints they have been given and use them to improve their collaboration?
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Users are urged to use the term "vandalism" carefully, since it tends to offend and drive people away.
("When editors are editing in good faith, mislabeling their edits as vandalism makes them less likely to respond to corrective advice or to engage collaboratively during a disagreement,"~\cite{Wikipedia:Vandalism})
There are also various complaints/comments by users bewildered that their edits appear on an ``abuse log''
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\item\textbf{Is it possible to study the regex patterns in a more systematic fashion? What is to be learnt from this?}%is this really interesting?
\item\textbf{(How) has the notion of ``vandalism'' on Wikipedia evolved over time?}: By comparing older and newer filters, or respectively updates in filter patterns we could investigate whether there is a qualitative change in the interpretation of the ``vandalism'' notion on Wikipedia.
\item\textbf{False Positives?}: were filters shut down, bc they matched more False positives than they had real value?