Extension:SimilarEditors

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SimilarEditors Release status: experimental
Author(s)	Wikimedia Anti-harassment tools team
Latest version	0.0.0
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki	>= 1.43
License	MIT License
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Help	Help:Extension:SimilarEditors
Parameters $wgSimilarEditorsApiPassword $wgSimilarEditorsApiUrl $wgSimilarEditorsApiUser
Added rights similareditors
Quarterly downloads	0
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The Similar Editors extension is a feature for discovering editors with similar edit histories. The feature was built by the Anti-harassment tools team as part of the IP masking project. It is currently in an experimental phase, and development has paused.

The extension provides an interface to the similar users tool, so that trusted users can experiment with it and provide feedback. Feedback is provided via the QuickSurveys tool.

Dependencies

• Extension:QuickSurveys
• Similarusers service

Installation

• Download and move the extracted SimilarEditors folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/SimilarEditors
• Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See task T173141 for potential complications.)
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'SimilarEditors' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

SimilarEditors uses the Similarusers service to analyse the similarity of edit histories between users. For installation instructions, see the Similarusers documentation.

Configuration

Granting right to use SimilarEditors

To grant the right to use the SimilarEditors extension.

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['similareditors'] = true;

Add those values in your localSettings file.

Setting name	Default value	Description
$wgSimilarEditorsApiUrl	string	Url to the API
$wgSimilarEditorsApiUser	string	Username of the account owner
$wgSimilarEditorsApiPassword	string	Password of the account owner

This first version of SimilarEditors is just for gathering feedback, please install the QuickSurveys extension to enable SimilarEditors.

Usage

1. Go to Special:SimilarEditors.
2. In the Usernames and IP addresses field, type in a username or IP address.

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Columns description

Day Overlap

The level of temporal overlap (editing the same days of the week) with the user.

Hour Overlap

The level of temporal overlap (editing the same hours of the day) with the user.

Edit Overlap

The number of overlapping edited pages divided by the number of pages edited by the user that was queried (between 0 and 1)

Inverse Edit Overlap

The number of overlapping edited pages divided by the number of pages edited by the neighbor (between 0 and 1)

Edits in data

The number of edits made by the neighbor in the data

Data collection

User data may be collected by QuickSurveys. The precise data collected will depend on how QuickSurveys is configured.