Re: [Wiki-research-l] Statistics on reverted edits

Hi everyone, Many thanks for the responses so far. I’m going through the links that Tilman and Isaac provided. Here is some more background on what I’m trying to accomplish (I’m realizing that more background usually helps). I have two projects going on: One is that later this month I’ll be doing a short presentation at the Misinfocon conference, as part of a panel discussion on quality at Wikipedia. The other project is that I’m writing a book for a general audience about how the English Wikipedia works in its processes and culture. I’ll be happy to talk more about this offline if anyone is interested. Both of these projects are very general in scope so I’m trying to rely on existing research as much as possible rather than conducting new primary research. I’d like to give a sense of *approximately* how many good, bad, and controversial edits the English Wikipedia gets. I’m not looking for perfect metrics, just ones that I can explain. E.g. the percentage of edits that machines can classify as being reverted is one possible metric of how many edits are considered to be bad by someone. I can explain that this might undercount the actual figure because humans might partially revert or fully revert an edit in a way that’s not machine-detectable. I found the answer to my question #5 through a Quarry query (I love that site!). In 2019, edit filters disallowed 581,120 attempted edits to the English Wikipedia, which is around one disallow per minute and totals nearly 1% of all enwiki edits. If we assume all disallowed edits are vandalism, and 2.5% of successful edits are vandalism, then around 3.5% of all attempted edits are vandalism and 29% of these attempts are disallowed by edit filters. Cheers, Su-Laine