Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, “Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base
from the Edit History” and “TableNet: An Approach for Determining
Fine-grained Relations for Wikipedia Tables” will be live-streamed
this Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 11:30 AM PST/18:30 UTC (Please note
the change in ti
Thanks Kerry.
Your raise a valid point: It makes sense that focusing only on detected
cases may not be representative or indicative of how widespread the
behavior is.
Has anybody ever though about running a survey with a representative sample
of registered editors? Given the nature of the behavio
The thing about sockpuppets is that we only know about the ones that have been
detected (and some of them have been large groups of 100s of accounts). The
problem is that we don’t know about the undetected ones. I am sure many of us
have had suspicions about the behaviour of certain accounts but
Does anybody know how prevalent are sockpuppets? Has anybody tried
estimating the percentage of editors that have created at least one
additional account? (Legitimate or otherwise.)
Giovanni
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 20:20 Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> In addition to Kerry's excellent examples there a
A quick and dirty solution might be to use the hostbot list from the
teahouse at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts/Database_reports The
list is regularly refreshed, so you could pull the account names from there
over the course of a month and then randomly select your sample, n
In addition to Kerry's excellent examples there are users editing
wikipedia though TOR, the anonymity and censorship circumvention
network. These users face extra scrutiny.
cheers
stuart
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 13:04, Kerry Raymond wrote:
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> Apa
Apart from the legitimate alternate accounts and the illegitimate sockpuppet
accounts, there are other ways that alternate accounts exist.
Occasional contributors often forget their username and/or password. Password
recovery isn't possible unless you provide an email address at sign-up (it's
o
Hi Haifeng,
Some users will state on user pages that an account is an alternate
account. However, this practice is not followed by everyone, and those who
do follow this practice aren't required to so in a uniform way.
Alternate accounts which are not labeled as such, and which are used for
illeg
