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

[Bryan Derksen]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 10/4/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> The negative impact, perhaps... but even that incompletely: Web
> searches don't normally take people to non-existent pages.
> 
> There is also a positive impact from some deletion, but thats harder to measure.

Just count all the times the nonexistent pages aren't visited. Easy-peasy.

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