[WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[Carcharoth]

On 5/31/12, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> Separately, the median number of watchlisters for the 100 pages you
>> edited is 5.
>
> Where is this figure coming from?

Possibly some variant of this:

http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/

That was limited to pages less than 30, though, after some objections
were raised. Possibly admins or others can see pages that have less
than 30 watchers. Can't remember.

Carcharoth