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Approach: They propose tasks to predict edit-actions performed during version updates . they define article-level edit actions: Addition, Deletion, Edit and Refactor .
Outcome: The proposed dataset is large-scale and multilingual and spans 15 years . it shows that edit-actions are predictable and are likely to be based on factual evolution .

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