As part of our moderator homepage explorations (T402632) we are creating a new 'Recent Activity' module, which displays edits (not in chronological order) which may require review. For our initial pilot, this is simply going to use one globally-applicable signal of Revert Risk score. In the future, we would like to find ways to use this module to surface other kinds of edits that may require review. These edits may be surfaced through signals which are personal to the user, and/or based on yet-to-be-created ML/AI models.
This feature should err on the side of surfacing edits which require patroller review - i.e. they need reverting, signify that the editor requires further investigation, or otherwise require additional work. We have a separate idea (T409059) to build an 'Edits for You' feed which would be more generic, not focusing on edits requiring patroller attention, but rather edits of general interest to a given editor.
This ticket is a placeholder parent task to document the ideas we have for what kinds of signals we could imagine building.
Some ideas we've had so far:
- Edits on pages which are currently receiving a spike in pageviews (suggesting breaking news or a sudden increase in popularity)
- Edits which appear to be part of an edit war (i.e. the same editors reverting each others edits)
- Significant edits to pages that the user created
- Significant edits to pages in a topic area the user frequently contributes to
- Edits which add potentially copyrighted content (using CopyPatrol?)
- Edits which add known unreliable references (may require some structuring of source reliability tables)
- Discussion replies which contain unconstructive text (see en.wiki AI Moderator proposal)
- Edits which are flagged by certain Abuse Filters (as defined in a Community Configuration config?)
- Edits which add a URL which has not been added to this wiki before.
- Suggested task edits - this could also be a distinct thing
- Edits with high reference risk
This work may progress under the RecSys project: T398071: Proof of Concept: RecSys for Patrollers