[WikiEN-l] An interesting study on bad edits and their impact

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Fri Oct 5 12:33:44 UTC 2007


On 4 Oct 2007 at 23:09:51 -0600, Bryan Derksen 
<bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > The negative impact, perhaps... but even that incompletely: Web
> > searches don't normally take people to non-existent pages.
> > 
> > There is also a positive impact from some deletion, but thats harder to measure.
> 
> Just count all the times the nonexistent pages aren't visited. Easy-peasy.

While at my browser I did stare
I saw a page that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
Oh how I wish it'd go away.


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