I've just read two different news stories on Flagged Revisions that described vandalism as a "growing problem" for Wikipedia.
With that in mind, I would like to highlight one specific point in the analysis I just did. The frequency of reverts to articles -- as a fraction of total edits -- has remained virtually constant for almost three years now. There is no evidence that the community is making reverts more often today (relative to total edits) than we were in 2007. Hence, I would suggest that describing vandalism as a "growing" problem is probably erroneous with respect to actual editing behaviors. Maybe our concern for ensuring accuracy and addressing vandalism has grown, but the scale of the underlying problem of incoming vandalism appears to be more or less constant. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
