[WikiEN-l] Unreverted vandalism

[Thomas Dalton]

On 11 February 2010 15:48, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> The latest example is here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military_science&diff=339309229&oldid=337736730
>
> [I'm not at the right computer at the moment, so hopefully someone
> will fix that]

Fixed.

> So is it as big a problem as it seems? What percentage of vandalism
> doesn't get caught for days or weeks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aetheling/Vandalism_survival

That's a pretty good study, albeit with a very small sample size (100 articles).