Background

Recent changes is a feed of all edits on a wiki. Patrollers and moderators rely on Recent changes to identify edits requiring action.

The ORES extension fetches and stores Machine learning model scores for recent edits, which are used to filters changes on Special:RecentChanges, highlighting the ones with a high risk of being reverted. These filters help patrollers to find edits that are more likely to be damageable for the wiki.

The ORES infrastructure is being deprecated by the Machine Learning team. Plus, this extension and the associated filters are only enabled on select wikis.

The Moderator Tools team would like to add a similar filter to all Wikipedias, by using the Language-Agnostic Revert Risk.

The Moderator Tools team has determined a list of wikis would benefit from this filter (and do not have high technical hurdles), regardless of whether or not the ORES extension is currently enabled for that wiki.

What is changing

A new filter is added to Recent changes filters:

Likely to be reverted

Detects revisions that might be reverted, but does not assess the user's intention.

This filter is shown under a new section: "Risk of being reverted".

It can be used like any other filter.

This filter identifies edits that are likely to be reverted. It is a tool to assist Recent changes reviewers. However, some of the changes filtered won't need to be removed, while some other changes that should be reverted might not be present in the filtered results.

In the future, this new filter could replace existing quality filters, powered by ORES, which are deployed at a few wikis.

Targeted wikis

The changes will be applied to wikis identified in T392144:

• Indonesian Wikipedia ( pilot wiki)
• Welsh Wikipedia
• Simple English Wikipedia
• Belarusian Wikipedia
• Kazakh Wikipedia
• Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia
• Macedonian Wikipedia
• Latin Wikipedia
• Afrikaans Wikipedia
• Telugu Wikipedia
• Marathi Wikipedia
• Swahili Wikipedia
• Malayalam Wikipedia
• Icelandic Wikipedia
• Punjabi Wikipedia
• Hausa Wikipedia
• Tagalog Wikipedia
• Bengali Wikipedia
• Turkish Wikipedia
• Azerbaijani Wikipedia

Key Milestones

1. Identify target wikis T392144

2. Deploy only to idwiki initially to validate process

3. Deploy to remaining wikis on list

Help & Learning More

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