[Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I would put money on a significant majority of reverts being
>> reverts of vandalism rather than BRD reverts, it may not be an
>> overwhelming majority, though.
>
>
> I don't know about that, though I won't take the other end of the bet.
>  Have you done much editing while not logged in?  If so, I think you have to
> admit that it's quite common to find yourself reverted for things which are
> not properly classified as vandalism.
>

Just going through recent changes looking for "rv" (which is not the only
thing detected by Robert's software, and is probably the most likely to be
actual vandalism)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smallpox&curid=16829895&diff=310413006&oldid=310405829
(content
dispute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=View_Askewniverse&curid=2163851&diff=310412615&oldid=310412247
(blanking
vandalism)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbecue&curid=37135&diff=310412401&oldid=310410035
(spelling
dispute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sino-American_relations&curid=277880&diff=310412381&oldid=310329859
(revert
of POV edits, I guess that counts as "vandalism" by Robert's definition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secession&curid=144732&diff=310412005&oldid=310406662
(I
have no idea, I guess this one qualifies)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Underdog_Project&curid=1436277&diff=310412002&oldid=308833810
(test
edit, qualifies)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual_communication&curid=669120&diff=310411952&oldid=310411398
(I'm
going to call this a content dispute though you may disagree)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_communication&curid=1219401&diff=310411937&oldid=310410621
 (ditto)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caroline_Aherne&curid=514223&diff=310411860&oldid=310328710
(removal
of POV, qualifies)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mario_Kart_Wii&curid=12205924&diff=310411680&oldid=310401913
(vandalism,
I think)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hephaestus&curid=14388&diff=310411384&oldid=310396007
 (vandalism)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_pop_punk_bands&curid=4770362&diff=310410857&oldid=310410740
(looks
like a content dispute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korn's_ninth_studio_album&curid=21855821&diff=310410677&oldid=310381982
(content
dispute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinetic_energy&curid=17327&diff=310410573&oldid=310391734
 (vandalism)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_games&curid=21469202&diff=310410431&oldid=310395902
(seems
to be reversion of a legitimate edit)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleological_argument&curid=30731&diff=310410174&oldid=310399980
(content
dispute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick_Swardson&curid=3630190&diff=310410089&oldid=310410013
 (vandalism)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jose_Canseco&curid=175552&diff=310409931&oldid=310408069
(vandalism,
I guess)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ola_Moum&curid=8083232&diff=310409846&oldid=310396138
(content
dispute)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kareli,_Georgia&curid=18661674&diff=310409393&oldid=310348062
(vandalism,
I think)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Justice&curid=2662543&diff=310412751&oldid=310411603
(I
guess it's technically a BLP violation, so qualifies)

13/21=62% actual vandalism, though I'm sure 80 people will now proceed to
dispute my categorizations.

Robert, let's get a random sample of the actual reverts your program
found...