[WikiEN-l] Encyclopaedia standards

[MPerel]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:59:47 -0800, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Christopher Mahan wrote:

> It would be useful to collect and report statistics about vandalism
> and edit wars. I have 16,000 articles on my watchlist (too many, I
> know!) and vandals touch maybe five of those per day, with most of
> the edits occurring on topics familiar to the general public (Julius
> Caesar, Steve Jobs, RMS Titanic, etc). If you can tell ichthyologists
> that the fish area of WP is 99.99% troublefree, that's a powerful
> argument to move data from their own websites, which likely don't
> even have 99% uptimes, and no army of copyeditors fixing typos.
> 
> Stan

16,000 articles on your watchlist!??!!  Wow!  

Miri