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

[Carl (CBM)]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Separately, the median number of watchlisters for the 100 pages you
>> edited is 5.
>
> Where is this figure coming from?

There is a redacted (no user info) table in the toolserver database
that can be used to count the number of editors who watchlist a page.
I fetched the counts for the 100 articles and found the median.

- Carl