** switched on for a while, then deactivated and never activated again?
** switched on and still on
** switched on for a while, deactivated for a while, activated again?
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** switched on for a while, then deactivated and never activated again?: 81 (bad charts)
** switched on and still on: 11 (verify), 79 (with brief periods of being disabled for couple of minutes/hours, probably in order to update the pattern)
** switched on for a while, deactivated for a while, activated again?: 61, 98 (was deactivated briefly since an editor found the "warn" action unfounded; re-enabled to tag)
**switched on and stayed on, with the exception of brief periods of time when the filter was deactivated (and the activated again), probably in order to update the conditions: 79, 135 (there were couple of others in Shirik's list, go back and look)
** irregular?
* What do filters target: general behaviour vs edits by single users
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** there are also some targetting particular pages (verify!), although this clashed with the guidelines
** and there are some filtering in general
** there are also filters such as 199 (Unflagged bots) which were implemented in order to track something which was not quite malicious or abusive and were thus deemed inappropriate use of filters by the community and consequently (quite swiftly) deleted
** some target insults in general and some contain regexes containing very specifically insults directed towards edit filter managers (see filter 12)
* How do filters emerge?
** an older filter is split?
** several older filters are merged?
** or functionality of an older filter is took and extended in a newer one (479->631)
** new condition(s) are tested and then merged into existing filter
** or functionality of an older filter is took and extended in a newer one (479->631); (82->278)
** new condition(s) are tested and then merged into existing filter : stuff from 292 was merged to 135 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/history/135/diff/prev/4408 ; following the comments from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/292 it was not conceived as a test filter though, but it was rather merged in 135 post-factum to save conditions)
* How stable is the filter maker community?
** how many new users have become part of it over time?
** Has it been the same people from the very beginning?
** are there a couple of very active edit filter managers, that are also (informal) leaders?
** Do edit filter managers specialize on particular types of filters (e.g. vandalism vs good faith?)
* How are filter actions set
** there's this pattern that all actions but logging (which cannot be switched off) are took out, when edit filter managers are updating the regex of the filter
** there's a tendency of editors to hide filters just for the heck of it (at least there are never clear reasons given), whichc is then reverted by other editors with the comment that it is not needed
** oftentimes, when a hidden filter is marked as "deleted" it is made public
* makes something out of this comment "Reset filter, it hit the 5% limit somehow. -- Shirik 14 May 2010" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/history/79/diff/prev/5529 : what is the 5% limit? What does it mean to reset a filter?
* check with the history exposed endpoint what filters were introduced immediately (first couple of hours/days): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/history?user=&filter=
* are there further examples of such collaborations: consider scripting smth that parses the bots descriptions from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_bots and looks for "abuse" and "filter"
* consider adding permalinks with exact revision ID as sources!
