[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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