[Foundation-l] (volunteer) job position : Ombudsperson checkuser (or checkuser Ombudsperson or whatever)

Anthere Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 21 23:30:04 UTC 2006


Sam Korn wrote:
> On 6/21/06, Daniel Arnold <arnomane at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>en.wikipedia (and some other smaller projects as well) have overproportional
>>heavy use of CheckUser.
> 
> 
> I disagree.  en.wikipedia receives far more traffic than any other
> wiki.  en.wikipedia receives more edits than any other wiki.  I expect
> it would follow that en.wikipedia receives a similarly high proportion
> of trolling and sockpuppetry.
> 
> You quoted "> 50%" of checkuser uses are on en.wikipedia.  Looking at
> traffic figures (Alexa), this seems about right.


Already mentionned, but worth repeating.

According to Alexa, the french language wikipedia represent 2% of the 
traffic. Given that it is right now the third biggest language on 
Wikipedia, I can't help consider that Alexa's international data should 
be taken with a pinch of salt.

ant

> Perhaps it is more de.wikipedia using CheckUser proportionally very
> little rather than en.wikipedia using it proportionally very much.
> 




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