[WikiEN-l] Unreverted vandalism

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.

>> 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).

"an estimated 10% of all vandalism endures for months and even years
indicates that some new tools and strategies are needed for rooting
out the most subtle and persistent forms of vandalism"

Quite a strong claim there.

The talk page discussion is interesting.

Carcharoth