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\caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Filters actions for enabled hidden filters}~\label{fig:active-hidden-actions}
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%TODO What were the first filters to be implemented immediately after the launch of the extension?
\subsection{Filter makers}
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\item percentage filters of different types over the years: according to actions (I need a complete abuse\_filter\_log table for this!); according to self-assigned tags %TODO plot!
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%TODO What were the first filters to be implemented immediately after the launch of the extension?
The extension was launched on March 17th, 2009.
Filter 1 is implemented in the late hours of that day.
Filters with IDs 1-80 (IDs are auto-incremented) were implemented the first 5 days after the extension was turned on (17-22.03.2009).
So, apparently the most urgent problems the initial edit filter managers perceived were:
page move vandalism (what Filter 1 initially targeted; it was later converted to a general test filter);
blanking articles (filter 3)
personal attacks (filter 9,11) and obscenities (12)
some concrete users/cases (hidden filters, e.g. 4,21) and sockpuppetry (16,17)
Following filter categories have been identified (sometimes, a filter was labeled with more than one tag):
