On 29.09.2013 10:04, Piotr Konieczny wrote:
I know of the categories, but the problem is that they do not seem to
be comprehensive. I can estimate, based on them, that there are at
least 150k or so editors who were banned for vandalism, but it seems
many vandals do not make it into those categories, suggesting this
number is underestimated.
Still, we should be able to get some estimates. We know, for
example, that something like 5 or 6 million of accounts have made 1+
edit on English Wikipedia. How many of them were indefinitely blocked?
This should give us some idea.
Alternatively, we know how many accounts make an edit to Wikipedia
every given timeframe. About 100,000-120,000 editors make at least one
edit to Wikipedia each month. If we knew how many are indef blocked in
that period, that would be another useful estimate.
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny [2]
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ [3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus [4]
I thought the bulk amount of vandalism comes from IP, and actually
filters can provide some info on that.
If we switch from research to personal experience, I checked all edits
on the Russian Wikivoyage since the beginning (October 2013). There was
only one vandal who registered two or three accounts and was indeffed,
but IP vandals and spambots are blocked on a regular basis, like every
one or two weeks.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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