Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:38:29 UTC
The language used to configure edit filters should be extended to include the possibility of processing multi-valued return values. This would enable more efficient checks if an edit was reverted (the current check seems to be that the current user is in the "list of the last 10 contributors", which they may also be even if they didn't do anything wrong; similarly, a check whether the last edit was done by a "bot" seems to be whether the bot is in the last 10 editors). A perhaps easy to understand semantic would be to introduce the notion of "list", and to have operators to get the first element, the rest of the list, perhaps with a size and empty? function (think of Lisps car/cdr). An alternative would be to introduce a way to split strings (alongside spaces most probably). These changes would allow more precise filters. They might also allows to detect page reversions better ("IP reverted legit user who reverted IP edit") There are of course just thoughts.
