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Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Anti-harassment/Add watchers variable to AbuseFilter

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Add watchers variable to AbuseFilter

  • Problem: Some pages are not well-watched. It can lead to unwanted vandalism for a long time (in particular the Template and Module namespaces). Being able to tag some actions on these pages could help prevent vandalism.
  • Proposed solution: Add a variable to AbuseFilter the gives the number of watchers to the page. This should be the same number currently shown in Page information.
  • Who would benefit: Everyone
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: LD (talk) 20:38, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • In my opinion, the variable should ideally be "Active watchers". Let's think of an article about 2012 Olympics, for example. It may have accumulated 100s of watchers in 2012, but a large number of them probably left the project by now. Once 2012 has passed, it hasn't really attracted newer watchers. So, even with a large watcher number, vandalism may pile up. But, if we consider "Active watchers", we'd have a better idea of what articles are more prone to unattended vandalism. —‍(ping on reply)—‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 21:49, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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