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

Would it be possible to to filter edits by whether the edit summary is matched by a pattern that the user inputs? One use case is for hiding some, but not all edits by a bot that does multiple tasks (such as w:en:User:AnomieBOT), some of which are mundane and you do not want to see. Another case is hiding semi-automated edits by a user using a tool such as AWB. In both cases, the edits to be filtered out would have the same or very similar edit summaries, so could be matched by user-defined regex, or perhaps even just an exact string match if regex is too complicated.

Hiding AWB edits is currently possible with a userscript I wrote, which then inspired a request for something similar for specific bot tasks. Such filters would be a natural fit with the other new filters for edit review.

Thank you for your suggestion, Evad37!

I'm not familiar by the policies concerning the use of semi-automated tools on English Wikipedia, but I would have thought they were supposed to be tracked, so using a tag (or a hashtag in edit summaries). I would have seen AWB tasks to be tagged, defined by software or by AbuseFilters. I don't know how complicated it is to implement a free form to search for a particular string, using RegEx or not, so I'm suggesting that walk-around instead.

Tagged edits made by a tool should be excluded in filtered results. That's not the case for the moment. (T174349)

Hashtags in summaries are also a (lighter) way to exclude some edits. I have no idea how complicated it is to create such a filter, so I've created T176851 to explore the idea.