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Analysis of content of edit summaries

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Dan Leonard (talkcontribs)

Can the edit summary analysis tool be extended to make counts of the content users leave in their summaries? I occasionally see users leave hundreds of edit summaries that are just "edit" or "fix" which taken together are essentially useless. These users who don't properly describe their edits can often have in excess of 99% edit summary usage with the current tool, but in my opinion these vague edit summaries might as well not exist (and in some cases may be used to intentionally obscure edits).

Example of edit summary analysis
Text Count Frequency
rv 4,156 15.0%
copyedit 2,014 7.2%
none 1,012 3.7%
fix typo 401 1.5%

Ideally, this would be case-insensitive and ignore both trailing punctuation and the /* section title */ syntax as I don't see how discerning between for instance "Fix article" and "→History: fix article." would be informative for this type of analysis.

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