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

[Jakob Voss]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Jakob Voss wrote:
>>== 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.

That's right. But you know journalists don't tend to take statements 
like this literaly - I doubt that everyone knows what a median or 
identifying something algorithmically is ;-)

By the way I'm sure we'll get some newer and more detailed numbers soon.

Greetings,
Jakob