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

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 22:51:40 UTC 2009


2009/8/20 Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com>:
> Robert Rohde wrote:
>> When one downloads a dump file, what percentage of the pages are
>> actually in a vandalized state?
>>
>> This is equivalent to asking, if one chooses a random page from
>> Wikipedia right now, what is the probability of receiving a vandalized
>> revision?
>
> Is there a possibility of re-running the numbers to include traffic
> weightings?

I'd like to see that data too. I'm sure you are right, vandalism
doesn't last as long on popular pages, but it would be very
interesting to see how much quicker it is reverted and how popular a
page needs to be for that to apply (or if it is a gradual
improvement).



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