[Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

Erik Zachte erikzachte at infodisiac.com
Thu Aug 20 18:12:02 UTC 2009


> Also a say 30% share of bot edits on some Wikipedia does not mean 30% of

> articles have been created by bots. My guess is that share is higher. 

 

That was too rash. I simply don't know the actual amount, but there is no
linear relation for sure.

 

Let me rephrase that more safely:

If say only 1% of bots edits is for the creation of an article it might
still mean 10% or 20% of articles have been created by bots.

 

Erik Zachte

 




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