On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Rohde<[email protected]> 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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