On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/8/27 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
Why do you assume that number of reverts has any correlation with amount
of
vandalism? Has this been studied?
It seems to be a sensible assumption, although checking it would be wise.
It seems to me to be begging the question. You don't answer the question "how bad is vandalism" by assuming that vandalism is generally reverted.
I would put money on a significant majority of reverts being
reverts of vandalism rather than BRD reverts, it may not be an overwhelming majority, though.
I don't know about that, though I won't take the other end of the bet. Have you done much editing while not logged in? If so, I think you have to admit that it's quite common to find yourself reverted for things which are not properly classified as vandalism.
However, that's only one half of the equation. The other half is how many instances of vandalism are not reverted, and how many are not "reverted" in a way that is detected by this program.