[WikiEN-l] An interesting study on bad edits and their impact

[Anthony]

On 10/4/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > Abstract: Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit
> > any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact
> > of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is
> > viewed.
>
> So I guess editors who delete articles are recorded as not contributing
> anything to Wikipedia by that action.

Wouldn't the impact of a deletion be measured by the number of times
"Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name." is viewed?