On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Rohderarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Given the nature of the approximations I made in doing this analysis I suspect it is more likely that I have somewhat underestimated the vandalism problem rather than overestimated it, but as I said in the beginning I'd like to believe I am in the right ballpark. If that's true, I personally think that having less than 0.5% of Wikipedia be vandalized at any given instant is actually rather comforting. It's not a perfect number, but it would suggest that nearly everyone still gets to see Wikipedia as intended rather than in a vandalized state. (Though to be fair I didn't try to figure out if the vandalism occurred in more frequently visited parts or not.)
Thanks for the excellent analysis, Robert. Just to give an idea of what 0.4% means in practice, you can think in terms of one country, 12 US counties, 33 Italian municipalities, 147 French municipalities or 1 Pope
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