[WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[Gwern Branwen]

My experiment has concluded and all the link removals reverted*. The
full writeup is at
http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#sins-of-omission-experiment-2

Result: Of the 100 removals, just 3 were reverted.

3% is even lower than I expected, and very different from Horologium's
estimate, incidentally.

* for those who wish to check, feel free to cross-reference the list
of diffs http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#link-removals
against my recent edits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Gwern&offset=&limit=100&target=Gwern

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