Sending this again from my current address. Left Gmail a long time ago -- not sure the redirect still works... My apologies if this is hitting your inbox twice!
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Dear Wikimedia research community,
I'd have a question for the data savvy people on this list :)
My goal is simple: for a sample of English Wikipedia editors, I'm trying to identify their edits which were reverted. I can see two possible way of doing this:
1. Identify the reverts using the SHA1 values. (A revert happens when the edit exactly restores the page to its previous state.)
2. Identify the reverts using the "undo" button.
As I see it, solution 2 is less "precise" (you'll miss some reverts, e.g., those performed manually). However, it would also be less computationally intensive, and I don't see that it would introduce any bias (results can be compared across editors in a statistical model).
However, I do not see the information about whether a revision was reverted using the “undo” button in the enwiki database: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Database_layout/diagram&a...
I find this surprising. Am I missing something? (And if so, how do you personally feel about strategy 1 vs. strategy 2?)
Thank you so much for any insight you might be willing to provide! :D
Sincerely,
Jérôme