"Charles Matthews" wrote
I really can't give any credence to the idea that edit wars could pull up the numbers much, averaged over the 400000 pages of the English Wikipedia. Not enough editwarriors to go round.
I'm not sure how that's measured; I've discovered edit wars in all sorts of articles, and as Wikipedia becomes more famous, the number of edit warriors seems to be growing. That said, the new enforcement of the 3RR should help.
In fact I would argue the diametrically opposite position. The general line of talk that WP is in some way failing/is getting filled with rubbish/is losing credibility/has a serious IP vandal problem/is not applying adequate scholarly standards is based, as far as I can see, on very thin anecdotal evidence... And I think clicking Random Page 100 times supports the impression that things improve. One example is that the category system has come on well, over the past three months.
Well, some might consider that "thin anectodal evidence". ;-)