On 11 February 2010 17:17, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
b) Use reversions. Sample a thousand uses of rollback from the recent changes list, find time between that edit and the one it was reverting.
That one sounds easier. If only people wouldn't use rollback inappropriately...
Mmm. You'd want a second study to get an estimation of how much rollback is:
a) inappropriate - edit-warring; b) irrelevant ("rollback self" is not unknown...); c) legitimate but mundane, such as mass-reverting edits to clean up after a discussion;
and finally d) actually reverting vandalism.
(The same applies to (undo), but the proportion of d) would of course be vastly lower)