[WikiEN-l] Unreverted vandalism

[Andrew Gray]

On 11 February 2010 17:17, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> b) Use reversions. Sample a thousand uses of rollback from the recent
>> changes list, find time between that edit and the one it was
>> reverting.
>
> That one sounds easier. If only people wouldn't use rollback inappropriately...

Mmm. You'd want a second study to get an estimation of how much rollback is:

a) inappropriate - edit-warring;
b) irrelevant ("rollback self" is not unknown...);
c) legitimate but mundane, such as mass-reverting edits to clean up
after a discussion;

and finally d) actually reverting vandalism.

(The same applies to (undo), but the proportion of d) would of course
be vastly lower)

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk