[WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Thu May 17 02:49:38 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Incidentally, I have been finishing an experiment involving the
> removal of 100 random external links by an IP; I haven't analyzed it
> yet, so I don't know the outcome, but this gives us an opportunity!
>
> Would anyone in this thread (especially the ones convinced Wikipedia's
> editing community is in fine shape) care to predict what percentage or
> percentage range they expect will have been reverted?
>
> Or what percentage/percentage range they would regard as an acceptable
> failure-to-revert rate?

First shouldn't we guess as to what percentage of the links were
actually good in the first place?



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