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+# Wikifilters
+
+This repository contains an inquiry into Wikipedia's edit filter system.
+
+## Structure
+
+* `article` contains a paper summarising the results of the present investigation
+* `filter-lists` contains different filter list views meant to facilitate the inquiry
+* `meeting-notes` contains notes from discussing the progress with my supervisor
+* `quarries` contains a number of queries to [https://quarry.wmflabs.org/](https://quarry.wmflabs.org/), a web service which allows running SQL queries against Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
+* `src` contains some random scripts used for data exploration