Extension:SimilarEditors

The Similar Editors extension is a feature for discovering editors with similar edit histories. The feature was built by the Anti-harassment tools team as part of the IP masking project. It is currently in an experimental phase, and development has paused.

The extension provides an interface to the similar users tool, so that trusted users can experiment with it and provide feedback. Feedback is provided via the QuickSurveys tool.

Dependencies

 * Similarusers service
 * Similarusers service

Installation
SimilarEditors uses the Similarusers service to analyse the similarity of edit histories between users. For installation instructions, see the Similarusers documentation.

Granting right to use SimilarEditors
To grant the right to use the SimilarEditors extension.

Add those values in your localSettings file.

This first version of SimilarEditors is just for gathering feedback, please install the QuickSurveys extension to enable SimilarEditors.

Usage

 * 1) Go to Special:SimilarEditors.
 * 2) In the Usernames and IP addresses field, type in a username or IP address.


 * Columns description
 * Day Overlap
 * The level of temporal overlap (editing the same days of the week) with the user.


 * Hour Overlap
 * The level of temporal overlap (editing the same hours of the day) with the user.


 * Edit Overlap
 * The number of overlapping edited pages divided by the number of pages edited by the user that was queried (between 0 and 1)


 * Inverse Edit Overlap
 * The number of overlapping edited pages divided by the number of pages edited by the neighbor (between 0 and 1)


 * Edits in data
 * The number of edits made by the neighbor in the data

Data collection
User data may be collected by QuickSurveys. The precise data collected will depend on how QuickSurveys is configured.