Interesting read. I'd be interested to know what they considered vandalism. Certainly the kind of stuff my bot reverts is pretty obvious, I don't know if it counted subtle vandalism or a good page getting edited in good faith, but into a crappy state. Also, were the articles selected at random or high profile/biographies?

I would say that from my experience and random page clicking, .47-.5 % sounds about right for random articles being blatantly vandalized.

-Aaron Schulz

> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:04:19 +0100
> From: achim_raschka@gmx.de
> To: wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikiquality-l] Only 0.0037% internet users arrive to a vandalised article
>
> Hello,
>
> Seems that http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_details.php?release=071105_3621&page=NS is meant. The full pdf-paper is linked there.
>
> Greetings from Berlin,
> Achim
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:13:35 +0100
> > Von: Platonides <platonides@gmail.com>
> > An: Wikimedia Quality Discussions <wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Betreff: [Wikiquality-l] Only 0.0037% internet users arrive to a vandalised article
>
> > The following brief was published yesterday on 20minutes
> > (www.20minutos.es) free newspaper at Spain in Spanish.
> > I can send you the original if you want.
> > The numbers are quite interesting. Does anyone know more about that study?
> >
> >
>
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