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

[Anthony]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The procedure: remove random links and record whether they are
> restored to obtain a restoration rate.

> - To avoid issues with selecting links, I will remove only the final
> external link on pages selected by
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random#External_links> which
> have at least 2 external links in an 'External links' section, and
> where the final external link is neither an 'official' link nor
> template-generated.

So, you are not removing random links at all.