I do like the tool. It is ok. But I feel like it would be better if there was setting that was standard and that those settings were highlighted as Standard. To make it easier for all editors so they do not have to Set and guess what settings to use to make the edit list standard.
Topic on Talk:Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review
What do you mean by word "standard"?
The four original settings that are the "Standard" should be highlighted in my opinion. I mean Latest revision, Page edits, Page creations, and Logged actions.
For everybody, "standard" is different (for me, it isn't Latest revision and it is Human (not bot)). When you have chosen those "standard" filters, click the bookmark, call it "Standard" and "Set as default".
I am reluctant to trust a filter to detect. We have bots but we have to have humans watch for vandalism in subjects they know and care about to keep noticing the things that fly under that radar. However, I like the categories you choose. I would like a way I can note I have looked at something in the watchlist, quickly, 1 keystroke. That would also be helpful to see that others have looked at the same new edits and have not objected. Of course on some hot articles, I'd like to consider the source (the POV) of the editor approving of the edits.
Most filters are not looking for objective contents. They are taking things as they are in the data base, like:
- is this edit made by a user who registered less than 4 days ago?
- is this edit made on mobile?
- is it an edit made on the Talk: namespace
- etc.
The only exception are the predictions filters, that are based on ORES, our artificial intelligence. Like any artificial intelligence, it is based on human expertise but can have some limited false positives.
There is a way to know if an edit has already been checked, using the Review status filters. They are available only to users with appropriate rights on wikis that have implemented RC Patrol.