[WikiEN-l] Unreverted vandalism

[Charles Matthews]

It's not quite a simple issue. I think we know vandalism is a "long 
tail" phenomenon, i.e. statistics of average reversion time get 
dominated by some very long-lasting bad edits. So for example median and 
mean reversion times may be very different. The question is whether one 
reads that as "soft security" actually breaking down, or as the comment 
that flagged doodads are a bit late to the party or will effect a big 
improvement. And then there is the issue of people not blanking their 
watchlists if they stop using them, which would conceal the effectively 
unwatched pages from the admins who would otherwise watchlist them. The 
latter problem could be addressed by database searches looking at 
watchlists of those who edit little.

Charles