On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
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.
Just going through recent changes looking for "rv" (which is not the only thing detected by Robert's software, and is probably the most likely to be actual vandalism)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smallpox&curid=16829895&di... (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=View_Askewniverse&curid=216385... (blanking vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbecue&curid=37135&diff=... (spelling dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sino-American_relations&curid=... (revert of POV edits, I guess that counts as "vandalism" by Robert's definition) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secession&curid=144732&dif... (I have no idea, I guess this one qualifies) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Underdog_Project&curid=143... (test edit, qualifies) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual_communication&curid=669... (I'm going to call this a content dispute though you may disagree) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_communication&curid=... (ditto) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caroline_Aherne&curid=514223&a... (removal of POV, qualifies) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mario_Kart_Wii&curid=12205924&... (vandalism, I think) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hephaestus&curid=14388&dif... (vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_pop_punk_bands&curid=4... (looks like a content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korn%27s_ninth_studio_album&cu... (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinetic_energy&curid=17327&... (vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_gam... (seems to be reversion of a legitimate edit) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleological_argument&curid=30... (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick_Swardson&curid=3630190&am... (vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jose_Canseco&curid=175552&... (vandalism, I guess) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ola_Moum&curid=8083232&dif... (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kareli,_Georgia&curid=18661674... (vandalism, I think) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Justice&curid=2662543... (I guess it's technically a BLP violation, so qualifies)
13/21=62% actual vandalism, though I'm sure 80 people will now proceed to dispute my categorizations.
Robert, let's get a random sample of the actual reverts your program found...