The New Filters for Edit Review beta feature is already available on some wikis and is coming soon to remaining wikis. A previous post described some of the changes this will bring for ORES users. This note updates that announcement.
Quite simply, ORES will be promoted to an on-by-default feature and New Filters for Edit Review will be taking it’s place in your beta preferences.
New Filters for Edit Review brings a lot of improvements, but it's still in development (beta), so we’ll be making adjustments and fixes for the next couple of months before turning our attention to new features again. To have the most impact, please have a look sooner rather than later at the new filters and let us know your ideas for improving them.
Here are the details about how this release will affect ORES users.
- ORES will be turned on by default: Once the New Filters for Edit Review beta is released for a given wiki, ORES will be turned on by default on that wiki (and the old ORES beta will disappear). That in itself shouldn’t change much, and the new preferences,described below will help you manage any impacts.
- On Recent Changes, the ‘New Filters for Edit Review’ beta replaces ORES shading for users who opt-in: As announced previously, user-defined highlighting and a suite of new ORES filters will replace automatic ORES shading on Recent Changes. To get these new features—along with a simpler and more powerful filtering interface and many other improvements—you must turn on the New Filters for Edit Review beta feature once it is released.
- On Watchlist and Contributions, ORES shading will be a preference: ORES shading of probably damaging edits on Watchlist and Contributions will be controlled via a Watchlist preference, “Highlight likely problem edits with colors and an “r” for “needs review.” All current ORES beta users will be automatically opted in to this preference. As the name suggests, this option also controls the little “r” signifying “needs review” (which, at users’ request, will now be displayed in black instead of red).
- On Recent Changes, a new preference controls the “r”: New Filters for Edit Review arguably makes the “r” for “needs review” redundant on Recent Changes. However, this marker will still be available as a preference. It will be turned on by default for existing ORES users. To turn if off, uncheck the new preference, “Mark likely problem edits with an ‘r’ for ‘needs review.’"
- Newly standardized ORES levels: ORES shading on Watchlist will shift somewhat to match newly standardized ORES filter levels. These have been optimized for usability and to account for differences among wikis in ORES performance. For example, ORES performs particularly well on Polish Wikipedia and Wikidata. For this reason, fewer colors of shading are required on these wikis.