[Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

[Gregory Kohs]

And here is where many of the flaws of the University of Minnesota study
were exposed:

http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_31#The_Unbreakable_Wikipedia.3F

Their methodology of tracking the persistence of words was questionable, to
say the least.

And here was my favorite part:

*"We exclude anonymous editors from some analyses, because IPs are not
stable: multiple edits by the same human might be recorded under different
IPs, and multiple humans can share an IP.*"

So, in a study evaluating the "damaged views" within 34 trillion edits, they
excluded the 9 trillion edits by IP addresses?  If you're not laughing right
now, then you must be new to Wikipedia.

Greg