[Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

Thu Aug 20 16:37:22 UTC 2009

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Rohde<rarohde a gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given the nature of the approximations I made in doing this analysis I
> suspect it is more likely that I have somewhat underestimated the
> vandalism problem rather than overestimated it, but as I said in the
> beginning I'd like to believe I am in the right ballpark.  If that's
> true, I personally think that having less than 0.5% of Wikipedia be
> vandalized at any given instant is actually rather comforting.  It's
> not a perfect number, but it would suggest that nearly everyone still
> gets to see Wikipedia as intended rather than in a vandalized state.
> (Though to be fair I didn't try to figure out if the vandalism
> occurred in more frequently visited parts or not.)
>
Thanks for the excellent analysis, Robert. Just to give an idea of
what 0.4% means in practice, you can think in terms of one country, 12
US counties, 33 Italian municipalities, 147 French municipalities or 1
Pope

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