On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Why do you assume that number of reverts has any correlation with amount of vandalism? Has this been studied? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
