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Baseline: What is the breakdown of vandalism edits reverted by Automoderator, human patrollers, and tool assisted human patrollers?
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Research question: Does Automoderator reduce the workload of human patrollers in countering vandalism?

Evaluation method: Proportion of edits reverted back by Automoderator, human patrollers, and tool assisted human patrollers

With revert times less than 1 hr, 8 hrs, 24 hrs, and 48 hrs

Note: tool-assisted (e.g. Huggle, Twinkle, SWViewer) human patrollers may not be applicable for all wikis, in which case, that category can be dropped during comparison

Baseline
This data point will obviously be 0 before Automoderator is deployed. We would like to see the distribution across these three categories pre- and post- deployment.


Question: What is the breakdown of vandalism edits reverted by Automoderator, human patrollers, and tool assisted human patrollers?

This analysis should be done individually for the top 10 Wikipedia projects by editing activity: en, es, ja, de, fr, ru, zh, it, pt, fa, plus our pilot id.wiki


Here we will try out our operational definitions:

Vandalism

  • Edit from account with <25 edits or anonymous user
  • Reverted by a different editor
  • Revert happens within 24 hours
  • Edit is in the main namespace

Patroller
Users with ...
any of the following user rights:

  • rollback
  • review
  • patrol
  • block
  • delete

Event Timeline

Samwalton9-WMF renamed this task from What is the breakdown of vandalism edits reverted by Automoderator, human patrollers, and tool assisted human patrollers? to Baseline: What is the breakdown of vandalism edits reverted by Automoderator, human patrollers, and tool assisted human patrollers?.Oct 13 2023, 1:31 PM

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Results (for year 2022):

wiki_db% Tool-Assisted Humans% Humans# Reverts
enwiki38.761.31760883
eswiki2.4497.56336656
itwiki5.1994.81264129
ruwiki3.0596.95222711
frwiki1.4298.58204375
dewiki1.6298.38179261
jawiki0.6799.3387517
zhwiki2.1997.8177667
fawiki010076648
idwiki1.6498.3637545
ptwiki31.568.536944
  • The notebook has a detailed breakdown by various user group combinations (sysops, non-sysops, users with no extended rights)
  • There is no best source about the all the tools available, I have reviewed Special:Tags on each wiki, and gathering the respective tags for tools which I felt are for patrolling / counter-vandalism. If needed, we can ask volunteers from respective communities to review this list to ensure we have got them all.
  • Please see the note at T348859#9429259 about who were considered as patrollers.