Detecting reverts and tagging reverted edits
- Mentors
- Kosta Harlan, Roan Kattouw
- Organization
- Wikimedia Foundation
In MediaWiki it is currently very hard to find and filter out edits that were later reverted (i.e. removed) from an article, it is also hard to detect certain types of reverts.
Over the course of this project I will work on:
- Creating a simple and universal interface for extensions to access information about reverts and reverted edits.
- Detecting manual reverts by comparing edits.
- Tagging reverted edits which will allow for easy filtering.
- Saving additional information about reverts and reverted edits for later use by the Product Analytics team.
- Writing a maintenance script for back-filling the reverted tag on old edits.
- Possibly updating some other modules to use my code and gain new functionalities.