Extension talk:ORES

If I understand InitialiseSettings.php correctly, this extension is deployed to 28 Wikipedias, Wikidata, and Spanish Wikibooks and Wikiquote.

Do we know how useful it is on the wikis where it is deployed? Does it actually help people clean up vandalism more efficiently?

If it is actually to these wikis, can it be deployed to more wikis? What needs to be done to achieve this?

Hey Amire80! Right now we are actually transitioning away from ORES (you can read more about it in this _very_ rough draft document) and onto a new infrastructure. In addition, some very early work is started on building new models to detect vandalism that are language agnostic.

What that means for the ORES extension is right now work in on hold until it can be moved to the new infrastructure. After that we need to take a look at how useful the ORES extension is for editors and decide what the plan should be moving forward.

Thanks!

Can someone install ORES on the Welsh (cy) Wikipedia, please? I'm interested in the Article quality assessment tool. It would be much appreciated! Thanks! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:33, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm assigned to the task T141177: "Wikipedia main content losts sources because too reverts, try to preserve them".

Then I need to know if the estimation of Wikipedia main content sources are already take in account in ORES. Thanks in advance for your attention.

if so, I think the subject page should make it clear.

Good question. For now, yes. However, we interact with the wikis through MediaWiki APIs so in theory it would be possible to run on third-party wikis. Where it gets tricky is that you would probably have to run your own infrastructure.

Thanks, I'll take your advice and mention this in the article.

The new filtering interface demo

Hey folks,

I made a post at mw:Topic:Tflhjj5x1numzg67 about including the new advanced filtering interface that the Collaboration Team is working on in the ORES beta feature. See the original post and add any discussion there.

The idea of using ORES for surfacing rated revisions in recent changes is reasonable. However, there is still excessive amounts of noise in the revisions, and recent changes is definitely has a lot of usability problems.

One option is to generate a report (e.g. Special:RevisionReport) that shows only the highest likely and and 100% content damage and vandalism, for example:

• Page blanking - there is rarely a need to blank a page, either it needs to be deleted or improved
• Huge amount of random characters - e.g. "asdasdASDZXczxc"
• Emoji: lots of emojis in an article
• Hoaxes: If it is even possible to detect that
• Repetitive text: The "buy viagra ... buy viagra" kind of thing
• Similar entries in multiple articles: Often vandals hit several articles adding nearly identical text

The idea is that people can simple focus on these, and clean them up gradually without looking into the whole recent changes. While there are improvements on the horizon for recent changes, it is still a tool attempting to fulfill too many use-cases and failing miserably at a lot of them.

Another idea, would be to flag potential bad actors. While this may be controversial for registered users, it might be perfect for IP addresses to identify if there is a particular pattern of behavior for an ip range.