On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
First shouldn't we guess as to what
percentage of the links were
actually good in the first place?
I must say, I didn't expect to see someone rationalizing the results
even *before* they happened.
No need to get personal, I wasn't rationalizing anything.
But no, you don't need to guess: you edit
Wikipedia
I do?
If you don't, you can go click on Special:Random
10 times and ask
yourself, 'would I delete the last link in the External links
section?' If you think 2 links are rotten, then perhaps you should be
predicting that - since everything is well, and any result is
acceptable, and the status quo is perfect - only 80% of the edits will
be reverted.
I certainly wouldn't try to make a prediction about the percentage of
links which are bad based on a biased sample where each link was the
last one in the External links section.