Concerning 1) and about analyzing reverts in general, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revert .
To explore 5), https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AbuseFilter and https://tools.wmflabs.org/ptwikis/Filters:enwiki may be of interest. Regards, HaeB On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:01 PM Su-Laine Brodsky <sulai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’m looking for statistics about the edits that are reverted on the > English Wikipedia. This is for purposes of explaining to the public what > Wikipedia’s quality control processes are like. If hard numbers aren’t > available, I’m also interested in educated guesstimates. > > 1) An often-quoted statistic is that 7% of edits are reverted. Is this > still believed to be true? > > 2) According to > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/19/scoring-platform-team/, 2.5% of > edits are vandalism. There are other common reasons for reverting, and I’m > wondering if anyone has studied their frequency. Does anyone know what > percentage of all edits are reverted for being: > a) Spam (as perceived by the reverter) > b) Copyright violation > c) Violations of the Biographies of Living Persons policy > > 3) Do statistics on the number of edits per day on the English Wikipedia > (i.e. 164,000 edits per day) include edits that are blocked by the spam > blacklists or by edit filters? > > 4) How many edits per day on the English Wikiepdia are prevented (blocked) > by the spam blacklists? > > 5) How many edits per day on the English Wikiepdia are prevented by the > edit filters? > > 6) What percentage of all reverts are made by users of Huggle and Stiki? > > 7) What proportion of vandalism is quickly reverted? A 2007 study > (Priedhorsky et al) found that 42% of vandalistic contributions are > repaired within one view and 70% within ten views - have any newer studies > been done on this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Su-Laine > Vancouver, BC > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l