Re: [Wiki-research-l] Estimate of vandal population

2013-10-01 Thread Dmitry Chichkov
I think a rough analysis user / IP talk pages could give you a number pretty quickly. You probably would want to do it by hand first and then write a script that analyses the wikipedia dump file. It is doable by hand, if you just sub-sample a few hundred pages randomly. And if normalized by a total

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Estimate of vandal population

2013-10-01 Thread Ziko van Dijk
So Piotr, if I understand you well it is about the question how many of the people who are our "contributors" according to the statistics (per 5 edits a month, or 100 edits a month) are actually vandals? I could imagine that some vandals manage to make 5 edits before being blocked, or lose interest