Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-06-01 Thread Carcharoth
On 5/31/12, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On average, the articles concerned had less than 100 page views a day going off stats.grok.se, so by just a few days, most of the edits should have been reverted - if they were going to be, of course. This assumes that page views correspond to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-06-01 Thread Charles Matthews
On 1 June 2012 11:19, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: And deletionists have no policy knowledge? Deletionists are not the monolithic body of people that you seem to think they are. Those with these tendencies (though I'm reluctant to lump people under a label) vary widely in

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-06-01 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: This assumes that page views correspond to people reading the pages. I suspect that a lot of people viewing a page just scan briefly for what they are looking for (I typically use Ctl+F to find something if I am in a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-06-01 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: This assumes that page views correspond to people reading the pages. I suspect that a lot of people viewing a page just scan briefly for what