Topic on Talk:Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review

Number of octets

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Summary by Trizek (WMF)
Antimuonium (talkcontribs)

Hi, would it be possible to filter modifications in terms of number of octets added or removed? That's just a questions, maybe stupid. Thanks.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi - There is no stupid questions! ;)

This is an improvement we are considering, please see the related ticket.

Antimuonium (talkcontribs)

Thanks.

Anyway, this filtering tool is a good idea and I hope it will be even better soon.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

You can have a look at the possible next steps on T162675. The next improvements will be bookmarks for your favorite filters and filters for namespaces.

Antimuonium (talkcontribs)

Oh, yeah, filters for namespaces would be very useful! So are bookmarks for the favorite filters. Nice.

JMatazzoni (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi @Antimuonium. I'm assuming that "octets" is another word for "bytes"? If so, filtering by the size of a change is an interesting idea. I have a number of questions:

  • Please say a bit about how you would use this filter? How do you use this data now? What kinds of numbers do you look for?
  • Are you equally interested in bytes added and bytes removed?
  • If you want to be able to sort additions/removals by size, then how many categories do you need? Would two be enough (small/large)? Do you need three (small/medium/large)? Five?
  • What would the logical thresholds/breakpoints be for those categories? E.g., how may bytes would constitute:

* Small changes

* Medium changes

* Big changes

Antimuonium (talkcontribs)

Yeah, sorry, it's bytes; I'm French and I thought it was the same word...

This idea may be useful if someone is looking for vandalism for instance: a big removal may be vandalism. Yesterday, when I discovered the tool, I needed it to see only small changes because big ones are content added and that wasn't what I was looking for. There may be a lot of other reasons.

The user would appreciate to have the choice between displaying bytes added or bytes removed or both. Moreover, I think the idea of three categories is good: small, medium and large. And we can let the user choose the size of the changes, in addition to these three categories. Small changes would be between 0 and 200 bytes, medium between 200 and 1 000 bytes and large over 1 000 bytes. Obviously, I'm not sure about these numbers and I don't really know.

Thanks for having taken my comment into account.

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