[Foundation-l] Re: Is Wikip/media politic?

[Jimmy Wales]

Jakob Voss wrote:
> In danger of beeing pedantic: The quote of Jimbo above was included in
> the article revision written by the journalist AJ Jacobs with "a bunch
> of intentional mistakes" as he wrote (posted by Notafish of 16:58, 20
> September 2005). By the way it also contains the famous
> "IBM-5-minutes-vandalism"-myth (see below). So as a serious researcher I
> cannot trust the source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ITAAW - but
> personally I believe that Jimbo said what is quoted ;-)
> 
> 
> == The famous "IBM-5-minutes-vandalism"-myth ==

I always say it like this:

"For certain types of vandalism which were easy to identify
algorithmically, the median time for reversion is under 5 minutees."

I said this at a talk *at IBM* and asked Martin Wattenberg if this was a
fair way to state it, and he said it was perfect.

--Jimbo