Extension:SimilarEditors

The Similar Editors extension is a forthcoming feature for discovering editors with similar edit histories. The feature is being built by the Anti-harassment tools team as part of the IP masking project.

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

Similarusers tool
SimilarEditors uses the Similarusers service that must be installed in order to fetch data.

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.

Day overlap: The level of temporal overlap (editing the same days of the week) with user_text

Hour overlap: The level of temporal overlap (editing the same hours of the day) with user_text

Edit overlap: The number of overlapping edited pages divided by the number of pages edited by user_text 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)

Edit in data: The number of edits made by the neighbor in the data