From b05115f56c18e2eefb46d2e5738416bfff3c0ab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:03:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] What were the first (most urgent?) filters to be introduced
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thesis/5-Overview-EN-Wiki.tex | 11 ++++++++++-
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@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ Most public filters on the other hand still assume good faith from the editors a
\caption{EN Wikipedia edit filters: Filters actions for enabled hidden filters}~\label{fig:active-hidden-actions}
\end{figure}
-%TODO What were the first filters to be implemented immediately after the launch of the extension?
\subsection{Filter makers}
@@ -369,6 +368,16 @@ In the subsections that follow we discuss the salient properties of each manuall
\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!
\end{comment}
+%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):
%TODO make a diagramm with these
- Vandalism
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