Presentation showing the latest results (as of July 2010) of the flagged revisions study commissioned by WM-DE. Presented at Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk (Poland).

1. Flagged revisions Latest results

3. Methodology

4. Results

5. Questions and feedback

8. Is the number of anonymous blocks reduced?

9. Does it discourage anonymous from editing?

10. Does it decrease number of requests for new accounts? (TODO)

14. Blocks /IP-blocks

15. (Semi)-protection

17. Also WKP comparable size (FR, IT)

21. Automated approval for trusted editors.

22. Filtered-out.

23. Methodology (approvals) SET OF CONSECUTIVE ANON REVS (page X) r 0 r 1 r 2 r 3 r N-1 r N . . . Pending Pending Pending Pending Pending Pending At first, all revisions in a given series (same page) are pending

24. Methodology (approvals) r 0 r 1 r 2 r 3 r N-1 r N . . . SET OF CONSECUTIVE ANON REVS (page X) Pending Pending Pending Pending Then, we mark all revisions directly approved Approved-direct Approved-direct

25. Methodology (approvals) r 0 r 1 r 2 r 3 r N-1 r N . . . SET OF CONSECUTIVE ANON REVS (page X) Pending Pending Pending All revs in between 2 app-direct are also approved implicitly Approved-direct Approved-direct Approved-implicit

26. Methodology (approvals) r 0 r 1 r 2 r 3 r N-1 r N . . . SET OF CONSECUTIVE ANON REVS (page X) Approved-implicit Approved-implicit Approved-direct Pending Approved-direct Approved-implicit All revs before direct approval are also approved implicitly

29. Includes admin reverts.

31. From that on, mark as reverted all consecutive revisions performed by same IP.

32. If that fails, look for IP info in the comment field, and look for newest revision performed by that IP.

34. RESULTS

35. Evolution anonymous edits

36. Evol anonymous edits (focus)

37. Evolution review actions

38. Time to approve/revert revisions r 0 r 1 r 2 r 3 r N-1 r N . . . SET OF CONSECUTIVE ANON REVS (page X) tstamp(r N-1 ) - tstamp(r 1 ) Anon-user Logged user Logged user Logged user Logged user -> Approve r 1 Logged user

39. Time to approve/revert revisions Revisions approved or Reverted at a very fast pace

43. Community takes this new role very seriosly.

44. Provides stronger incentive to watch content even closely.

45. Evolution % reverted edits Some reverts in the red line could belong to the black one

46. Evolution % editors who revert

47. Evolution blocked users

48. Evolution of protection actions