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This project seeks to reboot past work on automated classification of edit diffs -- namely [[Research:Automated_classification_of_edit_types|Halfaker and Taraborelli]] -- to identify a basic taxonomy of edit types and set of language-agnostic detectors for each edit type such that they can be used to analyze edits on Wikipedia.

== Edit Diffs and Detectors ==
{{Main|Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Python_package{{!}}Python Package}}
The initial phase of the project focused on the technical implementation of processing Wikipedia diffs and mapping changes to basic edit types. The resulting Python library ([https://pypi.org/project/mwedittypes/ mwedittypes]) can identify insertions, removals, changes, and moves to the following types of nodes: tables, references, lists, formatting, categories, media, wikilinks, external links, templates, headings, comments, whitespace, punctuation, words (or characters), sentences, paragraphs, and sections.

== Edit Categories ==
{{Main|Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Content_Maintenance{{!}}Content Maintenance}}
The second phase of the project focuses on taking the core edit types and mapping them to higher-order categories of edits. For instance, this might be identifying combinations of edit types that differentiate between edits that generate content versus those that maintain or annotate existing content.

== Edit Summaries ==
{{Main|Research:Wikipedia_Edit_Types/Edit_Summaries{{!}}Edit Summaries}}
The third phase of the project examines how edit types might be used to help improve edit summaries. It focuses on the hard case of auto-generating edit summary recommendations for edits that changed textual content on English Wikipedia.

== Use Cases ==
The mwedittypes library can be used for a wide variety of different use-cases, some of which are mentioned below:
* [[Machine_learning_models/Proposed/Multilingual_revert_risk#Model|Detecting vandalism]]
* [https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Edit%20Diffs/Campaign%20Impact.ipynb Fine-grained metrics of the impact of a tool]
* [https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Edit%20Intentions/Editor%20Intention.ipynb Inferring editor intention]
* [https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/isaacj/miscellaneous-wikimedia/-/blob/master/edit-types-cluster/EditTypes.ipynb Example deployment of the library on the cluster]