Edit evaluation parameters

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Edit evaluation parameters would be useful for computationally determining the validity and usefulness of edits.

Contents 1 User parameters 1.1 Types of edits 1.2 # and freq of edits 1.3 Other flags 2 Edit parameters 2.1 Quantity, frequency 2.2 Subject 2.3 Summary 3 Statistics and lists needed

[edit] User parameters

[edit] Types of edits

•  % of edits made to 1) own user/talk pages, 2) other user/talk pages, 3) article pages, 4) article talk pages.

[edit] # and freq of edits

• # of days since this user's [first | fifth] post
• # of edits in the past [day | week | month]
• In the list of the top 1000 editors? [y/n]
• # of edits to this user's talk page

[edit] Other flags

• Admin? y/n
• Ever been banned or involved in an arbcomm case?
• [for IPs] Ever been blocked? In a \8 net that has been blocked?

[edit] Edit parameters

[edit] Quantity, frequency

• # of lines [ added | removed ]
• # of edits to this page in the past [day | week] (counter [or a bit stale])
• # of edits to the talk page in the past [day | week] (counter [or a bit stale])

[edit] Subject

• Does the article have an NPOV / reliability / edit war tag? [y/n]
• Has the article been protected / given such a tag [this week | this month | ever]?
• Is the article in a "controversial" category? [see new list of these categories]

[edit] Summary

• Was there a summary? [y/n]
• Did the summary contain any of a set of alarming keywords? [y/n]
• Is it a new article? [y/n]
• Does the article title (esp. for new articles) contain any alarming keywords? [y/n]

[edit] Statistics and lists needed

1. List of controversial categories
2. List of alarming keywords for [edit summaries | titles]
3. List of the top 1000 (or so) editors CHECK
4. List of admins CHECK
5. List of once-banned or admonished users
6. List of users ever involved in an RfC or Arbcomm case
7. List of open-proxy IPs CHECK
8. List of AOL and other big dynamic-IP provider IP-ranges